Skjellyfetti wrote:Yeah, probably a good idea to only worry about it if it reaches a lethal dosage.
The point is that it's not a highly toxic substance. Your toothpaste is probably a lot more toxic than the water supply for that area is right now. I say that because if you ate about 10 tubes of your toothpaste you may get a lethal dose of fluoride. Yet they're telling people they shouldn't brush their teeth or shower with the water. It's possible that it might cause skin irritation but you could tell somebody that if they shower and get skin irritation THEN they can stop showering with the water. I say that but I really doubt that there's enough in the water to cause skin irritation.
This reminds me of the dispersant thing during the BP thing. On the inside of dealing with that thing I could see how ridiculous toxicologists thought it was that people were worried about adverse health effects from it. It's basically like worrying about the toxic effects of Dawn dishwashing liquid in extremely small concentrations. But you had these nuts out there, some with academic credentials, beating the drum for how dangerous the dispersants were so you had to act like you gave crap. So much of what officials do is about public perception rather than reality.
Like everybody knew darn well that there was no health hazard for consumers of seafood from the Gulf during that incident too. But you could actually read guidance about how it'd been learned from historical experience that no matter how much you told people there wasn't a hazard a lot of them weren't going to believe you so you might as well act like there is a hazard. It fell under the category of "Cultural" lessons learned from previous oil spill experience.
And I suspect that is to some extent what's going on here. There are probably people on the inside who see this as much ado about very little but they know they can't say that publicly and have to act like the water supply is contaminated with a lethal concentration of cyanide.
You can have my share of Guld shrimp, Johnny, I'm done with seafood.
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Prime example of people failing to adequately prep. If you don't have at least a 2 week supply of drinking water for every person in the household on hand at all times then you are wrong. That'a minimum of about a gallon per avg male, 3 quarts per avg woman, and maybe a 1/2 gallon per child. So for your avg family of 4 that would be about 40 gallons.
I don't do that but you made me think of something. I don't know what it's like in West Virginia but here where I live if one water source was contaminated with something I'm concerned about I could just get surface water from another source then filter and boil it if I REALLY needed something to drink.
Surely there must be other sources of water in that area besides that river that the chemical spilled into.
Of course, me, after reading about that chemical, I'd probably just go ahead and use water from the water supply. I really would.
Most of your posts suggest you already have been for a long time.
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There's a TV show about kids in West Virginia..? Frankly I think that is BRILLIANT!
I won't be watching but I'm 100% positive it will be hysterical
How could it NOT BE hysterical
Kids in general are funny
WV Kids should be double that (and creative as hell)
Get with it, old man. That's an old TV Show and IIRC, that boy is dead.
