Sunday, September 16, 2018

Useless nanny state warnings

All of the following warning signs can be found throughout California and even in online sales to warn us all about the potential health affects of coming in contact with everyday items.



Here's one for wood dust:


Second hand smoke?  Yep, there is a warning sign.

Want to buy a cobalt drill bit?  Please observe the warning!!
And of course, to keep us all safe even Disneyland has to put up a warning sign:

My question for all this is simple: which bureaucrat or set of bureaucrats in California need to receive a medicinal slap in the face to hopefully get them to stop all of this bullshit?  Obviously, the state wants to prove to us all that it cares about our health (even though only a fool would believe such a thing).  But its also just as obvious that the signs are useless. Most just tell you that in doing what you are already going to do anyway, you are exposing your body to some kind of danger.  Well, that's pretty much the case if you get out of bed each day and live in the real world.  Some of the warnings are specific, like breathing some fumes in an underground parking lot or walking through a smoking area.  But if you have to be in those places then you really have no choice but to inhale a few breaths of it.

But without exception, these useless warnings don't tell us what we should do instead to protect ourselves or just how much relative danger one threat is over another.  All the state cares about is the appearance of caring while also creating a fee collection opportunity for those who do not comply with the posting of useless warnings.  Let's face it, if going to Disneyland appreciably increased the odds of cancer or birth defects, Disney would have been shut down long ago.  So all of this crap is useless posturing by assholes, the only cure for which I can think of is a sharp strike to the face in order to reset their silly liberal nanny state brains.

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