Well sure, it’s better to allow cringe-af speech as part of having free speech than it is to have any kind of censorship regime (“fighting words” notwithstanding). But yeah, it is cringe af.
“Relative of person who died in a tragedy 24 years ago upset over a shirt made by an independent vendor on the internet who already stopped selling the shirt” is a very New York Post kind of article.
Fluoride in the water systems in Utah is hit or miss. My county does not have it while the county just south does. And we both get much of our water from the same water company. The governor was quoted in the article as thus: “You would think you would see drastically different outcomes with half the state not getting it and half the state getting it. I’ve talked to a lot of dentists. We haven’t seen that,” Cox told ABC4. “So it’s got to be a really high bar for me if we’re going to require people to be medicated by their government.”
While I kinda wish they had commissioned a study before banning it, I don’t know that banning it is going to make as much difference as some may think.