[WikiEN-l] How's our coverage of medications?

[Puppy]

You are preaching to the choir here. I have audibly espoused the concept 
that perhaps OSHA is not doing the country a service (the USA, for those 
of you in OTHER countries) due to the fact without OSHA protecting them, 
more idiots would die and clean the gene pool of idiots. Mind you, I was 
half joking............ but only about half.

Durova wrote:
> Warnings...
>
> This kind of subject whets the appetite.  In front of me is the package for
> a frozen pizza.
>
> "COOKING INSTRUCTIONS: Cook before eating."
>
> Doesn't this invoke images of the one-in-a-million nincompoop who would
> otherwise chomp down on a hard frozen pizza?  Doesn't it make you want to
> run to the Darwin Awards?
>
> Currently, the planet holds an estimated 6.72 billion people.  If we pass
> out 6.72 billion frozen pizzas stripped of the words "cook before eating"
> and one in a million chomps down on an icy pizza and die of e. coli as a
> result--let us consider that our gene pool might be ever so slightly
> improved.  And other species with an equal inherent right to exist on this
> planet might have a smidgen more ecosystem for themselves.
>
> Extra warnings that self-medicating based upon information in an open edit
> website just might not be absolutely accurate?  Just what is our moral duty
> here?
>
> At the San Diego Zoo last week I watched pandas.  The world needs more room
> for pandas.
>
> -Durova
>
>