The CDC took the incredible step of issuing a warning on all romaine lettuce in the United States.
Some romaine is tainted with a particularly nasty strain of E. Coli bacteria but since the CDC has no idea which romaine and where it came from, a blanket warning seemed to be the best “better safe than sorry” course of action.
The media then proceeded to try and politicize this and proved 1) just how deliberately dishonest they are, and 2) they really do have shit for brains.
Dan Diamond is a writer for Politico. This was his deep thought on the romaine issue.
CDC on lettuce: 😡
CDC on guns: 🤐— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) November 20, 2018
Think Progress went a bit deeper.
Romaine lettuce is too dangerous to be in stores, but guns are still available 24 hours per day https://t.co/Moza2NKtlF pic.twitter.com/UXRES0eX8E
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) November 24, 2018
This is the first paragraph from that article.
On Thanksgiving Day 2018, Americans couldn’t buy romaine lettuce because of a CDC recall linked to an E. Coli outbreak. But even though gun violence is so mundane that a shooting at a mall in Alabama Thursday evening barely made national news, guns were still freely available at stores like Walmart across the country.
Politico, Think Progress, and the rest of the Blue Checkmarks pushing this nonsense are deliberately conflating two totally different ideas. The fact is we see this all the time, whenever we hear “guns a legal but Lawn Darts are not” or “teddy bears are more regulated than guns.”
We all know guns are dangerous. Guns are boxed with warning after warning about keeping them out of the reach of children. Ammo is packaged with warning after warning.
The issue with guns is misuse, or more accurately, wrongful use.
Guns kill. That is what they are designed to do. When you kill a deer with one, or lawfully shoot a home invader, you used the product as intended. When you shoot another drug dealer for dealing on your block, that is not used as intended.
That is very different than Lawn Darts in which the intention is not to impale a child’s skull but happens by accident.
That is different than teddy bears which are not intended to choke children but do when the button eyes come off too easily.
That is very different than lettuce which isn’t supposed to make you shit yourself to death when you eat it.
When a product hurts a person because the product was designed poorly or is improperly manufactured or handled, that is very different than the use of that product in a deliberate criminal act or through negligence.
This is more of that “it sounds like a witty zinger but doesn’t hold up to the slightest scrutiny” argument that one of my readers pointed out in the comments of another post.
It is intended only to work in the minds of people who don’t think critically.
That so many in the media rely on this type of argument shows you how little they think of their readers and how little they think themselves.
And it shows how ignorant they are. Guns are used 1-2 million times a year to save lives but that goes againt the narrative.
Here’s my take: internet chump: “d’oh, CDC says romaine bad, gotta toss Romaine”
Same internet chump” D’oh, CDC says vaccination good, Jenny McCarthy knows more than all the physicians at CDC. Vaccinations BAADDD! Disgraced defrocked doctor Andrew Wakefield says vaccine BAADD! No vaccination for me! (or, more importantly, for da’ chump’s kids)”
No, of course, I NEVER have the latter sort of conversation with anybody!
https://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/news/20110106/bmj-declares-vaccine-autism-study-fraud#1
So there still has not been an actual recall. If there we’re to be a recall then all the retailers that pulled romaine and products containing romaine would get reimbursed as of right now they are just losing they money.
Shhhh… my wife does not need to know..