The nutty, crazed anti-baggists, who are against throw-away paper and plastic bags, based on their faulty understanding of basic economics and their delusional vision that we will all be suffocated in a world of empty bags, may be even more harmful than first thought. They are more than humorous nut jobs, it turns out they are killers. Not only will their anti-bag crusade result in a nutty distortion in the economy, but their crusade will end up killing some of us.
A study will be published this week in The Journal of Infectious Diseases that solves the mystery of how a “a nasty outbreak of norovirus infections in a group of soccer players” left a soccer team ill. The culprit was a reusable grocery bag, exactly like the ones people will have to use if more cities decide to ban plastic grocery bags, reports Breitbart.
Even before reusable grocery bags are widespread, the norovirus results in yearly hospitalizations of 800,000 people and deaths of another 800, since the infectious virus causes severe vomiting and diarrhea.
And as more cities like Los Angeles try to ban plastic grocery bags, reusable grocery bags will be more omnipresent in these cities, causing greater health dangers.
For liberty lovers out there...whenever you see someone behind you with those ridiculous bags, make sure to do the following:
ReplyDelete*Double* plastic bag your items!
I would, but in Montgomery County MD there is a bag tax.
DeleteYes, in the Peoples Republic of Maryland, Montgomery County Province, there is a "bag fee" of $0.05 per bag. This fee ostensibly will go to cleaning up the bay, but of course there will be no correlation whatsoever between revenue raised this way and any "cleanliness metrics" that may exist. It is simply another big tax that will raise quite a bit of revenue, which will all be wasted as quickly as possible.
Deleteyay for fear-mongering and slippery slope arguements!
ReplyDeleteSure, we all know the state never causes problems and the scope of it's laws never expands! That "slippery slope" obviously hasn't had any effect on the interpretation of what is and is not constitutional over time.
DeleteIt's really not a big deal if people just put the reusable bags in the washer once in awhile.
ReplyDelete>put the reusable bags in the washer once in awhile.
DeleteGreat, and that uses how much electricity, water, detergent(don't greenies hate phospate laden detergents?), not to mention time(weekly bag washing night,oh boy)?
I have followed this fiasco being implemented in Austin, Texas(scheduled to happen in 2013), and from the get-go the issue of contaminated reusable bags entered my grey matter.
Also, they are banning PAPER bags, which degrade pretty easily. They never did give much reason on that.
This is all about a new revenue raiser, mark my words, they will allow either a per-bag 'tax' or per trip(multi-bags) tax to stay in place, knowing many people will still go for the plastic-paper bags and pay the 'tax.'
This is also just one more manifestation of our generic, one-size fits all, bye-bye choice society.
But, it is 'Green' it is good(sarc)! The useful idiots being indoctrinated in K-12 public schools and universities mindlessly accept all of this.
That's a waste of water.
DeleteThe only solution is to drown oneself in the ocean.
And then they'll be using drinkable water instead.
DeleteFor me, not only will I wind up wasting water (and expensive propane should I dry the bag), but I will have to start buying thick plastic trash bags to throw away the trash. My wife is super-anal about emptying the trash, so we use the small plastic bags from the grocery as trash bags. If I have to use thick bags, that anal-retentiveness is not going away, so I'll be throwing away massive amounts of partially-used trash bags. My "plastic footprint" will probably go up by a multiple of one hundred.
DeleteAnd the small reusable bags will probably have lots of people washing them in small loads (if they wash them at all). They are wasteful and dangerous. A typical government solution.
Hmmmmmm oooorrrr perhaps a terrorist plot.....
This is called progress. Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary anyone?
ReplyDeleteOnly with statists is using force against people called "progress."
DeleteHere in the UK, I've seen a few reports in recent years of the bugs and bacteria found in reuseable bags when tested in labs. All kinds of nasty stuff including e-coli have been reported.
ReplyDeleteAs anon says, it's fine if you eash them, but I suppose most people don't.
So then they will mandate that shoppers spray their reusable bags with disinfectant spray that will then give them allergies, emphazema, and cancer.
ReplyDeleteThese nutty control freaks!
This is why we call them regressives. ;)
ReplyDeleteIf investing money on supposedly eco-friendly shopping bags is actually disadvantageous, then might as well stop with the spread of the change. It might be friendly to the environment, but according to these reports, it won't be long till humans will be extinct, but I know that's a hyperbole of a statement.
ReplyDeleteThere is another risk from popular 'green' notions circulated routinely in the press, media and schools without challenge. Cold water washing. This is seen as 'green' and 'energy saving' but it is a disease risk. You need to wash clothes, especially socks, underwear etc. at 140 / 150 degrees F (60 degrees C) or so to actually kill bugs. A family following popular green 'energy saving' notions is increasing it's exposure risks. This is rarely commented on. (Although discussed here and here.
ReplyDeleteMy guess is that this is probably a bigger problem than shopping bags!
not only is food and groceries already expensive, but now i have to pay .10 cents a bag where i live just to take it home? i already pay crazy amounts in gas to take it home because in california there is a tax for gas being "anti environmental" added to the already outrageous price....the apartment that i can afford doesn't have a washer or dryer, so im forced to go all the way across town already just to was laundry and its $8.00 a load....thanks for forcing me to be "environmentally friendly" jackass EPA. everyone i know was already reusing plastic bags for trash bags, now we have to spend more for those as well....retards
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