Governor declares public-health emergency, bans all vaping products

It's not that it's "Chinese oil" but rather that the vitamin E acetate seems to be linked to the acute lung ailments we're seeing, whether it is sourced from the US or China is irrelevant but it is a more common cutting agent in black market carts. That's part of why the street carts are cheaper, they cut the contents down so that there is less THC per unit volume but often use inexpensive agents like vitamin E acetate to do it. Is it safe to assume that The NY State Department of Health is not made up of "internet bros" in your book?

The more chronic pneumonia ailment seems to be more closely linked to vaping propylene glycol and vegetable glycerine which increases lipids in the lung tissue. Or is The Journal of Clinical Investigation also an "internet bro" in your book?

There are known links between these pneumonia type lung ailments and breathing in oils (search for the lung cases linked to a diacetyl production at a facility that made artificial butter flavoring as an example) so why would you dismiss a connection between them and the intentional inhaling of oils that have been heated to a vapor?

It's early in understanding what's going on and there are a ton of open questions about all of the things involved (e.g. flavorings, composition/construction of cartridges, etc.) but to dismiss the observed correlations as an "internet rumor" on your part is seriously misguided even if the hysteria is probably beyond the risk at this point in time.

But this vaping health crisis is a good argument for federal legalization of weed. We need the resources for the FDA to properly study and regulate how weed is delivered to the body with different methods. Remember all the OD's from stupid people not understanding how eatables worked?