Posted on 04/23/2010 10:46:21 PM PDT by TheSentry
Finally, a scientific expalination for all of the fruits and nuts in California.
My dad used to use mercury to polish dimes when he was a kid. I think he still has a capped vial of mercury he retrieved from a thermometer a few decades ago.
Mercury is a fun compound to play with. My brother and I remember playing with it from time to time and we turned out ok.
Thats because it wasn’t Mercury. It was quick silver.
Its all in the name...
yeah, that first polio vaccine was a real winner!
Polio was on the decline for years. The number of polio infections was about 32,000 a year at its peak. And most of them were of the very mid variety.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not advocating not vaccinating our kids. But I am saying that the first attempt at the vaccine killed a lot of people.
AND, it was not the scourge epidemic that people today think it was.
Small pox was another story.
Yet Congress has mandated we replace every light bulb in our homes with ones containing elemental mercury that are made in China..so known for its product safety.
just think of all the GE light bulbs now being forced on the citizenry...
Just so both of you ill informed, ignorant, dumbasses know you haven't got a frickin' clue: Northern California is the most conservative bunch of people in CA and probably more conservative than most other states.
If we were a state apart we would be solidly red. We always vote conservative. I am talking about the North eastern portion mainly, the section that has all the gold.
Liquid mercury is harmless. You two idiots, OTOH, are full of sh**, which can be harmful to your health.
Why would anyone be against vacations???
No one goes to Mercury yet anyway.
Didn’t they put Mercury in the flu vaccine? If the kids had their shots they should be immune to it!
I bet the next form of terrorism in schools or any other place will be nutjobs carrying a box of florescent light bulbs into a place and having a smashfest.
Or wearing a body vest festooned with old style mercury thermometers, complete with an attached hammer.
Or video extortion by sending pics of a person about to drop a CFL in a mall bathroom.
AND, it was not the scourge epidemic that people today think it was.
???
I don't know how old you are but I remember parents going into palpitations if their kid had the sniffles and a sore neck(including my mother).
A public swimming pool in Coral Gables, Fla. used to shut down in the summer because of the number of kids getting polio, traced to possibly the pool.
I knew several kids that came down w/ polio and ended up in iron lungs. Very crippling even after getting out of the iron lung.
Terrible disease.
And btw, it can recur many years later. A friend suffered that after 30+ years.
hummm, I wonder what happened to the stock when people wouldn’t take the vaccine...and the company was left with much unusable stuff....kinda brings a smile to one’s face if Obama lost a lot of money....he tried to make it mandatory, but failed... :O)
True, and the first small pox vaccine was taking pus from smallpox sores.
I understand, and can concur with your comments.
My mom and her brother both came down with it. My uncle’s case bankrupted my grandparents in the early 30’s. Five months of hospitalization without any insurance will do that. Its weird, I just heard that whole story this weekend, and my mom is 80.
That said, at its peak it was affecting 32,000 people a year. And most of those cases were mild at worst. This is slightly higher than those “killed” by the flu on an annual basis.
The panic occurred because it affected mostly the young and weak.
I am not arguing that it wasn’t horrible, but it was NOT the massive killer that a lot of people believe it was. If you were to compare the disease on pure numbers and not the emotions of the day you may see my point.
Of course, if it were my kids getting sick....
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