Pills, Safety and ~Deb

As I was looking at a medicine bottle this morning, something occurred to me: you know, medicine bottles are easier to open now then when I was a child. I can remember the "child proof" jokes about how only a child could open a bottle of pills.

I don't have many pills – I don't like them. But I was finishing up a bottle of Marinol I got off the street. Actually, I was finishing an antibiotic, and it was so easy to open. Did not break a nail on the bottle. Did not throw it on the counter in disgust. Did not ask someone else, say a child, to open the bottle.

I am not sure if children were getting smarter so the pharmaceutical companies gave up. Or senior citizens were suing the drug companies because they could not get their arthritis medicine. Personally I think the US Government did a bunch of studies to show that it made little difference in terms of patient safety. You either harm children or harm senior citizens, and let's face it, kids don't vote!

When I was a little girl, like most kids, I ran around during the evening, thinking nothing of my safety. We never worried about child predators, about booster seats, about riding in the back of a neighbor's old pick-em-up truck, wind in my hair. We seemed safe; we were safe. Personally, I think we were no safer back then; perhaps we were even less-safe. But because of the news (hundreds of outlets verses four when I was a child), other media, etc., we know about the sexual predators. We know about children dying after falling out of pick-em-up trucks. We know of people dying of exotic diseases one gets from, well, you get the idea.

Personally, I think those who will make things of themselves, may find a niche in separating the crap information from useful information. Were I able to do it, perhaps I would not be blogging at work right now.

Oh, and the ~Deb reference is just to draw more readers in. Yeah, a bit gimmicky. Sort of like when the news shows the weather at the end of the newscast every single day. Darn those news guys!