First, they laughed. Then they banned it. Chemtrails are now officially mainstream. The Tallahassee Democrat ran a story Thursday headlined, “ ‘Chemtrails,’ cloud seeding would be banned under DeSantis-endorsed bill passed by Florida Senate. It wasn’t even close. The Senate approved the bill on party lines 28-9. So much for conspiracy theories.
Governor DeSantis endorsed the Senate version of the bill (and has opposed the House version). Senator Ileana Garcia’s version, if signed into law after House approval, would allow the state to charge a person with a third-degree felony if found participating in weather modification activities, punishable by up to five years and a $100,000 fine.
“This is about protecting Florida’s environment and public health,” Garcia said. “With no federal guidelines in place, Florida must take responsibility for its own airspace.” As I’ve reported before, the EPA has jurisdiction over planes and the common airspace. But it’s a new EPA. If the good bill passes, I doubt violators will feel comfortable that the EPA will spring to their defense this time.
Now, even the Tallahassee Democrat — not exactly a hotbed of heterodoxy — is printing the word “chemtrails” without flinching. In the headline! (Albeit with scare quotes.) The science hasn’t changed— only the politics. Which says a lot about the science.
In related news, you’ll recall that Utah became the first state last month to ban fluoride from drinking water. On Wednesday, ABC ran a terrific story headlined, “More cities, counties start to remove fluoride from public drinking water.” Not just small ones, either. Consider this Thursday headline from the Miami Herald:
Miami — Miami! — voted overwhelmingly (8-2) to remove the 70-year-old additive from its drinking water. That’s not some dusty rural county. That’s a core progressive stronghold throwing out one of the longest-running sacred cows in the public health pasture.
Miami’s mayor could veto. She has said she’s considering rejecting the move. But the Commission can override her veto with a two-thirds vote.
Tying it back to the weather story, last week Florida’s Senate also approved a bill that would ban fluoride statewide. There is a remarkable amount of anti-fluoride sentiment swelling in the nation’s waters lately. Our Surgeon General, Dr. Ladapo, opposes adding the chemical to our drinking water. So … it could happen.
The dam broke last month in Utah. On Wednesday, the Utah News Dispatch ran a story headlined “RFK Jr. coming to Utah on Monday to talk fluoride, ‘MAHA’ bills.” The article reported the new HHS Secretary will hold a press conference with new EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin about Utah’s fluoride liberation day.
Secretary Kennedy has got to be a very busy man these days. His trip to Utah strongly suggests upcoming federal guidance about removing the chemical. Maybe it will even be announced at Monday’s press conference.
In an interview last week, new NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya said he planned to refocus the agency on Americans’ top health problems instead of a dizzying array of lucrative distractions. He didn’t say bi-curious transgender mice, but they scurried around the fringes of his remarks. Jay is forcing the NIH scientists to examine Alzheimer’s, autism, heart disease, metabolic disorders, vaccine injuries, and plummeting fertility.
Finally.
This week’s news showed how rapidly the Overton window can shatter when truth is allowed out of its fact-checking box and political power shifts. The chemtrail bill and fluoride bans are canaries in the health freedom coal mine. And if this is the start, imagine what comes next: endocrine disruptors, seed oils, maybe even glyphosate.
Take a quiet moment to marinate on how far we’ve come, so dizzyingly fast. Chemtrails and fluoride —what we long dreamed that the government would one day officially recognize as problems— are now only the beginning. If America’s health starts roaring back, how much market uncertainty could we tolerate for a while? Occasionally, I take a breath and ask myself whether this is all really happening? It is happening, and it’s glorious.
