No doubt there were plenty of warnings....the problem is we have become immune to warnings and tune them out. I wish folks who want to put up a warning for every trivial thing would realize that it makes it more difficult to recognize real dangers.....
“we have become immune to warnings and tune them out”
No kidding. California passed the Prop 65 initiative to put cancer warnings on products. Now EVERY PRODUCT, no matter how prosaic or benign, has a warning.
I upgraded to AT&T fiber last month. The fiber runs outside, through the ceprawl space, up the wall and terminates at a wall plate high in a closet. There’s a plastic jacket on the fiber. It plugs into their fiber terminus / router / Wi-Fi box. It’s a plastic electronics enclosure like hundreds of millions of similar comms boxes in everybody’s house.
A day after installing it, I got a text message from AT&T — “Products used to install fiber to your home are known to the State of California to cause cancer.”
And THAT, sir, is why I voted against Prop 65, and urged all my friends to do the same.
(Assuming you're a sir, if not, sorry)