My most profound thoughts are inspired by alcohol bottles

The surgeon general's warning on the bottles doesn't ever include the name of the current surgeon general. When a new surgeon general is appointed, do the bottlers have to stop producing alcohol for a few days until it's confirmed whether the new one gives the same warning or a different one? What if a surgeon general just wants to change a couple words? Do they recall the recent alcohol? Or put up information in the liquor store that you can send yours back for an updated warning? Has there ever been a surgeon general who decided not to issue one of the previous warnings?

The Office of the Surgeon General has a pretty dang uninformative webpage. First of all, there aren't even any warnings. Second of all, it's all acting like it's user-friendly, except it's totally not. Like, either be a boring dryass government page, or be gimmicky like ready.gov. You can't have it both ways. I especially enjoyed the "improving health literacy" section. I clicked over, saw a bunch of long sciency words in outline form, and quickly realized it was above my literacy level and didn't bother looking around further. They could at least have some pretty colors and handy clicky links. Ooh, and they should have a mascot. They could name the mascot Warner!

(And mind you, this is before I've even consumed any of the aforelabeled beverage.)


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