Paragraph 1, agree.
Paragraph 2, presumptuous.
We've noted in several threads that everyone doesn't present the same. And note that they're backtracking "vaping related lung problems" a bit, so they may pick up other things. There's more than one thing going on, and that results in the caution and over-generalization we see out of the CDC. They're starting "big" and narrowing things down, scientifically, from what I can tell. Basically, they "go wide" and narrow it down. If they don't, and they get too specific and presumptuous and exclude something they shouldn't in their warnings, people die due to their bad information if they "miss something".
That said, the governors and FDA and BT and congress critters and the rest are ....problems. And they're dealing with other things besides the illnesses all at the same time (save the children agendas outside of the illness incidents).
Regardless, there's at least two if not more things going on at once: The vitamin E acetate thing, and something else. Because some don't present with lipoid pneumonia, they have other things going on that are not fats in lungs...it's fluid in lungs, but no fats. So it sounds to me (layman, but going off of the cdc reports) that it's not one single thing. There's at least three diagnosis appearing.
And who knows? Pesticides and insecticides can be used on tobacco too. So maybe some contaminated nic-base somewhere in the supply chain. We just can't say with 100% certainty that all those that present differently and claim to not be vaping mj stuff....are lying. We don't know that, and they DO present differently. IDK the correlation between the claims and the presentation, but you have to wonder as an analyst or user reading all this, even if medicine isn't your discipline.
So we want to take the easy route, and justify our ire at them messing with nic-base at the same time, but it's logically unsound. Frankly.
And remember there's two separate agendas 1) CDC illness response, and 2) ANTZ-Save The Children, at the same time.
We can say that we're sure SOME of this is cannabis related, and that it's Vit-E-a related. But it's a hell of a presumption to assume it stops there. And it's kind of a dangerous cop out. But if we play the odds, they might be self-reinforcing assumptions, since the majority of issues probably are Vit-E-a related. I just don't think it's a good idea to say it's 100% guaranteed.
(And Rossum, I'm not saying you said exactly that either, and I'm not trying to misquote you, I'm talking about the general issues here. But there COULD be a fungicide/insecticide/other contaminant issue too)
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