Posted on 06/28/2018 12:48:22 PM PDT by Gamecock
Cancer makes people desperate.
“alarmingly high” ? Thats only the usual ‘mauve alert’ in a socialist nannystate where detected the flatulance from hillary clinton would cause a regional lockdown.
I agree... but there are a few points with this that I'll assume are true for the purpose of making a point with some family members....
A few years ago a trio of yutes in a local suburb dropped ONE mercury thermometer in the street. The street was closed off for three or four days while guys in hazmat suits decontaminated the area.
Just a WAG on my part but methinks the city got a bill for several tens of thousands of dollars & the hazmat guys might have been lucky if it turned out they made $10 an hour. Whoever got the contract (somebody’s nephew ?) cleaned up big-time.
What do you call a pig with three eyes?
A piiig.
I’m not surprised by all the sulfur and mercury in traditional Indian topicals. I’m a bit surprised there was that much copper present as, unlike S and Hg, Cu doesn’t have a much of a rep for being effective. Topical mercury products were felt to help many conditions in the past, they just had lousy safety profiles and thus were abandoned as soon as even marginally effective but safer options arose. What surprises me most was they didn’t find any arsenic! Its reported to be a very common ingredient in traditional Indian medicines, probably is also effective for many things. And although it also has toxicity issues its side effects are probably more insidious than mercury’s.
Does she have any history of traveling to Flint Michigan?
“When I was a kid I got a test tube full of mercury to do some science experiments. But there was no science involved, I just played around with it until it was about 1/2 gone, mostly into the bedroom rug. Many years later, I feel fine.”
EXACTLY the same situation here ... then and now ...
did you coat any dimes with the stuff to make them super shiny for a while?
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