In California, Umbrellas Prevent Cancer and Cause It American Council on Science and Health
Right now essentially everything sucks. It can get mighty miserable, reading about COVID 19 deaths or civil unrest. So let's have some fun!A few minutes of senseless idiocy at the cost of California. Why now?Because their officials determined that my patio umbrella stand is gonna give me cancer. There's even a label to prove it.
And if you act now, you're going to get some really bad "artwork!" So, let's as a substitute have some fun in its place at the cost of California's Proposition 65, possibly the largest joke of a law that you will ever see. I have had some fun with Prop 65 ago. For instance, See Should California Put A Warning Label On Your Penis?or When Crazy Meets Crazier: California Wants To Label Tylenol A Carcinogen. Also, my esteemed colleague, Dr. Alex Berezow, takes a shot at the law here.
Do you see how stupid here is?That umbrella stand has a similar chance of giving anyone cancer as I do taking a bubble bath with Susan B. Anthony in Macy's window on July 32nd. Because of garden shade cloth of lead paint and leaded gas, blood lead levels have dropped like a rock in the last 60 years in the US. We are far safer from lead poisoning than ever before. With the exception of umbrella stands, I guess. No, the stupid umbrella stand isn't going to do anything to me whatsoever, yet if a California company or business, large or small, inadvertently fails to slap on a nugatory label on a wonderfully safe product they will pay dearly, due to the vipers bounty searching attorneys who implement Prop 65 by use of predatory proceedings that advantage no one except themselves.
What a joke.
