Definitely fishy. I get that he might have been going overboard with the vitamin D, but . . . he was 89. Might not that have been a significant factor in his death? It used to be that when someone who was 89 died, people said, "Well, he was a 89," or, "89 is a pretty good run, innit?" or, "He was old and that's what done it." You might even expect someone to say, "Well, he smoked for 63 years," but never "Well, he should have lived a whole lot longer but he was taking too many vitamins." Of course, now the covid jabs have made 24 the new 89 for a lot of people, enthusiasm for vitamins seems like a stupid thing to be worried about.
It would be for any normal person, but no stupid cause is too dumb for a bureaucrat looking to justify his job, or a politician wanting to make a name for himself. It won't be right for the government to make vitamins yet another thing you must have state permission to use, and it should be fought like hell if it looks like they're going to try it, but in the case of vitamin D this kind of control-freakery would come to nothing. People's skin converts sunshine into vitamin D. We can get around the law just by going outside.
Definitely fishy. I get that he might have been going overboard with the vitamin D, but . . . he was 89. Might not that have been a significant factor in his death? It used to be that when someone who was 89 died, people said, "Well, he was a 89," or, "89 is a pretty good run, innit?" or, "He was old and that's what done it." You might even expect someone to say, "Well, he smoked for 63 years," but never "Well, he should have lived a whole lot longer but he was taking too many vitamins." Of course, now the covid jabs have made 24 the new 89 for a lot of people, enthusiasm for vitamins seems like a stupid thing to be worried about.
It would be for any normal person, but no stupid cause is too dumb for a bureaucrat looking to justify his job, or a politician wanting to make a name for himself. It won't be right for the government to make vitamins yet another thing you must have state permission to use, and it should be fought like hell if it looks like they're going to try it, but in the case of vitamin D this kind of control-freakery would come to nothing. People's skin converts sunshine into vitamin D. We can get around the law just by going outside.