Posted on 09/05/2018 9:09:56 PM PDT by massmike
There was a PSA about lead paint in the early 70s, ran on TV and radio.
Can’t find it anywhere but the lyrics are here:
Paint chips peelin’
from the ceiling
by my baby’s bed.
Eatin’ paint and plaster,
took him to the doctor.
Convulsions, lead poisonin’
ghetto malaria
why Lord, why?
Landlord lazy,
an’ I’m half crazy,
‘cause my baby’s dead . . .
Probably so.
The problems with lead paint IN a house is that crawling babies and some who could stand, would chew on the wooden window ledge inside the house which was done in lead-based paints.
That is a legitimate serious problem.
Lead paint on the outside of the house, not so unless lots of it got into vegetable gardens.
Lead dust - not much of a problem if you didn’t scour your walls with brillo-pads, and lead paint that has been covered with newer, non-lead paints should be any problem.
Much the same with asbestos. If you left the pipe covering alone, there would be very little dust.
There are legitimate health concerns involved here, as well as shyster-led illegitimate-gains politicians too. In California, science takes last place to charlatans and ambulance-chasers, all led by Democrat lunatic politicians.
{I’ve worked on lead-related environmental cases for almost 25 years so I know a thing or two about the subject. California is the worst state in the country re environmental lawsuits and they are proud of it).
I just remember all the "noise" re "some" children being ill and/or worse because they ate paint chips in federal housing.
I always wonder who would let their kids eat paint chips and why didn't they clean them up when they fell, so that kids would be tempted to touch/eat them.
I'm sure that there was lead paint everywhere, when I was growing up; however, there were never any paint chips anywhere and with huge radiators in front of windows, I doubt that any kid who was teething, was about to climb on a hot radiator to chew on a window sill, back then.
Not every window in the old days had a cast-iron radiator in front of it, esp. if a children’s room had two windows in it.
My son, as a child of about 1-2, put a piece of garlic bulb up his nose. Must have thought he was part Italian - we weren’t. Off to the emergency room we went.
Kids can be a vexation.
No acceptable substitute available though...
I think the real problem is that part of the lead in lead paints was lead acetate, which has a sweet taste and was sometimes called “sugar of lead”.
Small children like sweet things and will eat the lead paint for the sweet taste.
Lead acetate was never the primary form of lead in paint, but it was there, and when the paint chips were eaten, the other lead compounds came along for the ride.
If the paint isn’t peeling, it is hard to eat the paint chips.
Window configuration varied, still does, and sometimes bedroom windows were two together, radiator underneath both; other times they were the way you described the to be.
I had a bedroom with the double windows and the third window had an airconditioner in it, so there were many variables and still are.
Small children can and often do rather strange things with object...swallow something they shouldn't even have in their mouth, or, as your son did, when little, stick something strange up a nostril.
I take it that your son is now okay and never did something like that again!
We did too and I am sure my brother’s science and chemistry kits in the 50s and 60s had some things that would be scary now. My mother also used the no bugs floor wax, and kitchen cabinet no bugs shelf liner- oh and sprayed the house if she saw a bug. I have no idea how we survived.
Teams of lawyers looking for deep pockets. Shakespeare was right.
I remember jumping up and down on the back seat of my best friend’s mom’s car while she drove it smoking cigarettes.
It’s actually amazing when you consider the chances of your being alive based on the 100% survival of all of your ancestors to the age of successful procreation over all of the generations....
If it’s shut, paint it shut....
Interesting, puppies like to do that more than the tykes....
Why was the state of California not doing its job?
I'm not digging up Ronald & Nancy Reagan to take them elsewhere. So I'll stay in California for now.
But I think that Brown has nearly cured the state, and Newsome will be the final nail for Democrats. By the time his first term is over, he'll have the grand ribbon cutting for the high speed train from Bakersfield to Modesto with tickets a mere $65 a pop.
Even the brain dead zombies in Berkeley have figured out that that would have been free college for everyone for ten years.
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