[Publius6961]

“Can you imagine mercury bulbs throughout a school? I mean, any time a kid wants a day off he’s going to break a mercury light bulb and that’s going to shut that school down and if they don’t they’re going to have trouble with the EPA according to what has to happen to clean it up,” Risch added.

The ignorant hysterical bureaucracies are clearly to blame for absurd reactions.

In my high school science labs every student learning chemistry and physics handled metallic mercury, and learned the difference between the metallic form, and soluble and insoluble mercury compounds.

Welcome to the idiocracy...

[AlexW]

“In my high school science labs every student learning chemistry and physics handled metallic mercury”

As a kid, it was great fun to play with little balls of mercury, and coat coins with it.
God only knows what would happen if they caught kids doing that today.
Also, in those days, I knew kids that thought lead paint chips were pretty tasty ;)