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Health concerns mounting as animals become sick after train derailment

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Re: Health concerns mounting as animals become sick after train derailment

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It is _super_ weird how little attention this derailment seems to be attracting.

I’ve seen a handful of national media outlets cover it without paying any particular attention. What level of attention should this story be getting?

Given the fact it’s going to affect things downstream & across state lines… probably at least the level that “Chinese spy balloons” are getting.

Might hinge on how bad the first impending acid rain ends up being.

I think Jackson Mississippi still doesn’t have clean water, & you haven’t seen that in any headlines for quite some time. Most things that actually matter don’t get very good news coverage, lest people become concerned about how hard they’re being swindled by corporations.

Ohio just got completely swindled by JD Vance, so nobody should be surprised when bad things continue to happen to the general populace with zero accountability from those causing it.

Also, keep in mind that this is the land of a river (Cuyahoga aka Cleveland) catching on fire at least 15 times. Environmental disasters with no accountability are our groove.

Re: Health concerns mounting as animals become sick after train derailment

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It is _super_ weird how little attention this derailment seems to be attracting.

Given the amount of people affected and the toxicity of the chemicals, you'd think they'd give it commensurate coverage --such as Chinese balloons, Biden documents, Trump documents, Police beatings, etc.

Re: Health concerns mounting as animals become sick after train derailment

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>“Smoke and chemicals from the train, that’s the only thing that can cause it, because it doesn’t just happen out of nowhere,” Holzer says. “The chemicals that we’re being told are safe in the air, that’s definitely not safe for the animals … or people.”

>“All the readings we’ve been recording in the community have been at normal concentrations, normal background, what you would find in almost any community operating outside,” said James Justice with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Somebody is lying.

Re: Health concerns mounting as animals become sick after train derailment

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve seen a handful of national media outlets cover it without paying any particular attention. What level of attention should this story be getting?

Given the fact it’s going to affect things downstream & across state lines… probably at least the level that “Chinese spy balloons” are getting. Might hinge on how bad the first impending acid rain ends up being. I think Jackson Mississippi still doesn’t have clean water, & you haven’t seen that in any headlines for quite some time. Most things that actually matter don’t get very good news coverage, lest people becom…

How does JD Vance have anything to do with this

Re: Health concerns mounting as animals become sick after train derailment

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>“Smoke and chemicals from the train, that’s the only thing that can cause it, because it doesn’t just happen out of nowhere,” Holzer says. “The chemicals that we’re being told are safe in the air, that’s definitely not safe for the animals … or people.” >“All the readings we’ve been recording in the community have been at normal concentrations, normal background, what you would find in almost any community operating…

Not necessarily; the reports really could be unrelated to the train accident, or the EPA was simply unable to detect the cause.
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