Was it a mistake to ever let the medical profession campaign against smoking?
Like most provocative rhetorical questions, the answer is, of course, “No… mostly”.
There’s no doubt that the original action against smoking made some massive improvements to public health. That’s the good part. The bad part — and it’s a very bad part — is that it gave the troughing bastards a taste for power. Having got to tell everyone from governments to the general public what to do, a certain class of medical professional realised that they enjoyed doing so, very, very much.
In fact, bossing, bullying and busybodying seems to be as addictive for a certain type of personality as smoking is for others. This shouldn’t be a surprise, of course. Doctors were the single profession most likely to join the Nazi party, and significantly amongst its earliest and most enthusiastic adopters. Some of the most notorious dictators of modern history, from Radovan Karadzic and Papa Doc Duvalier, to Bashir al-Assad, were doctors by profession.
Even The Lancet lamented the “dictatorial tendencies” of doctors, and conceded a disturbing correlation that associates leaders who are physicians in the modern era with more autocratic regimes than leaders who are not physicians.
At least today’s white-coated bullies aren’t trucking anyone off to the gas chambers (on the other hand, there’s Canada and Belgium) — yet. But they are apparently determined to control nearly every aspect of our lives.
Especially if it involves having fun.
Taking cake into the office is as harmful as passive smoking and encourages people to overeat, according to the UK’s top food watchdog.
That’s right: eating a piece of chocolate cake is as bad as taking a massive draw on your durrie and blowing it into your co-worker’s faces.
These people are insane.
Coming from someone who looks every bit as if the last time they had fun was sometime around when the boys came home from the War — the Boer War — I’ll take her “personal experience” with a grain of salt.
Speaking of her personal experience, she said: “We all like to think we’re rational, intelligent, educated people who make informed choices the whole time and we undervalue the impact of the environment.
“If nobody brought in cakes into the office, I would not eat cakes in the day, but because people do bring cakes in, I eat them. Now, OK, I have made a choice, but people were making a choice to go into a smoky pub.”
Exactly: you made a choice. That’s what grown adults do. Anyone who’s not allowed to make choices is either a child or a prisoner.
She acknowledged that comparing cake with cigarettes was not quite like with like – people can’t inhale cake crumbs unwittingly. However she insisted the damage caused by both scenarios were very similar.
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Except that they’re not.
Even if this vinegar-faced lackwit is a professor, that doesn’t make her arguments any less stridently ludicrous.
And it certainly doesn’t give her the least right to tell the rest of us what to do.
Wonder no more why so many public health “doctors” so eagerly flocked to the Covax Cult and so eagerly supported the un-personing of the unvaccinated.
We should have learned the lesson of the Third Reich.