RedKing, your senator has gone even fuller retard.
Oh Internet...you never disappoint.
Also, I love the comments pointing out that he wants to replace regulations requiring employees to wash their hands, with a regulation requiring that they post a sign stating that they don't follow sanitation regulations.
Mind you, this is the fucktard that presided over a legislature that created a separate commission for education to oversee things normally overseen by the Department of Education. All because the Department of Education had too many entrenched bureaucrats (i.e. people who do this for a living and weren't particularly partisan) whereas the commission was appointed by the legislature and therefore purely beholden to their political masters. But they'll claim they're for small government at the same time that their answer to everything is to create a new commission or agency. CONSERVATISM -- UR DOIN IT WRONG
I can also say that while I get his horrific hilariously badly demonstrated point, business does and will find a way to get around or minimize disclosure. As they do all the time. It's only because of stringent FDA regulations that you hear ANYTHING about drug side effects in commercials now. We're not that far removed from the days of Dr. Jensen's Miraculous Cure-All Laudanum (guaranteed to relieve pain, fever, dengue, scoliosis, bluetongue, and genital warts! Now with 10% less spontaneous combustion!).
Even the little sanitation grade things at the restaurant....if it's a good grade, it's posted right in the window when you walk in. If it's a shitty grade, it's going to be behind a potted plant somewhere back near the kitchen. The rules say it has to be displayed "prominently" but there's often little guidance as to what that means.
By the way, that little arc? That's what passed for his brain making a leap for it.
I'm not sure whether the chance of a flamewar is worth posting about supplements demonstrating that we aren't actually removed from that line of thinking yet.
Agreed, but there is a difference. For the most part, supplements are mildly beneficial at best, and useless at worst (not including issues of Chinese-made supplements tainted with God-knows-what). As a result, I wouldn't support regulation requiring food service employees to take herbal supplements to keep their health good (after all, a sick food service worker is a public health problem). But it's not like
not washing hands doesn't make much difference. Plenty of recorded hepatitis outbreaks to disprove that notion.
I think a larger topic here (and this dovetails with the recent love affair conservatives are having with the anti-vaxxer crowd) is this notion of personal freedom vs. public good. Conservatives, especially those of a libertarian streak, tend to come down hard on the side of personal liberty while liberals tend to come down on the side of public good. Public health though, is an area where I feel like it's incredibly irresponsible to have a boilerplate libertarian response, which is what you're seeing from Rand Paul, from Christie (in a more nuanced form), and recently from Rush Limbaugh who compared anti-vaxxers to Galileo (in that they were being persecuted as "heretics").
I would love to see someone ask them if that means someone potentially infected with Ebola shouldn't be forced to restrict themselves to quarantine. After all, that's a big-government infringement on personal liberty, in the name of some nebulous "greater good". The consistent Republican response should be to have the suspected Ebola carrier to merely disclose this fact as they go about their daily business (hopefully, their first order of business being to go personally thank their Republican representatives for defending their personal liberties with a big warm hug...)
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