My brother found a good sized bottle of mercury and we played with it for about a year until it disappeared, and I got myself covered in asbestos dust a few times as we threw old pipe wrappings against the wall where they exploded in a cloud of white asbestos dust.
It may yet kill me, so I am not belittling it.
That said, I find the whole thing of the ‘epidemic’ of food allergies completely bizarre.
We ate razor blades.
The asbestos thing is way overblown.
Those with asbestosis were the ones who worked in factories for decades with little or no protection from the fibers.
Asbestos is a ROCK, that is found in the soil and air in the Adirondacks. When the wind is out of the northwest from the cliffs in Canada along the north shore, it brings across Lake Ontario asbestos dust that raises the asbestos levels in the outdoor air to a level that exceeds NY’s indoor air quality standards for the substance.