In a landmark policy win for MAGA-QAnon freaks, Utah Governor Spencer Cox on Sunday said he’ll sign a bill to ban water fluoridation in the Green Jello State, the Wall Street Journal reports.
“It’s got to be a really high bar for me if we’re going to require people to be medicated by their government,” said Cox in an interview with ABC4 Utah. “It’s not a bill I felt strongly about; it’s not a bill I care that much about, but it’s a bill I will sign.” Cox added that half the counties in the state don’t fluoridate water supplies and claimed that dentists told him they don’t see big differences.
The American Dental Association urged Cox to veto the bill, writing it would end “one of the most trusted and tested public health strategies in the arsenal of preventive medicine.”