My father worked in the Philadelphia Naval Yard building war ships for the USA during WWII, and then went on to start his own company involved with industrial boiler maintenance.
He was around asbestos in both occupations.
He contracted MESOTHELIOMA (asbestos related lung cancer) later in life and died before his time — enduring substantial pain and suffering.
Asbestos is banned in over 60 countries.
Now, in another TRUMPIAN ASSAULT on the American people, our child President aims to bring back ASBESTOS.
The following is from a New York Times report:
Under Trump’s rule, EPA director Scott Pruitt eased restrictions on its current use, for one reason - because Trump likes it.
His 1997 book, “The Art of the Comeback,” said that asbestos had “got a bad rap,” claiming that efforts to force its removal from schools and other buildings were “led by the mob,” rather than motivated by health concerns.
It just so happens that one of the last asbestos mines still in existence lies in Mother Russia, where Trump has become somewhat of a modern hero for re-awakening the asbestos market. Asbest, Russia has begun a media blitz to lighten asbestos’ bad image and has even re-named asbestos “chrysotile”.
Knowing Trump’s affinity for and his financial ties to Russia, could Trump be looking to profit from this new assault on human health? Just a thought.
But the pesky International Agency for Research on Cancer says “there is sufficient evidence in humans for the carcinogenicity of all forms of asbestos,” including chrysotile.
Back home in Asbest, the locals, who’s main industry has been the mining of asbestos, also love asbestos even though “…a comparative review of death rates in Asbest and the surrounding region of Sverdlovsk, found that “mortality rates for cancers of the lung, stomach and colon were statistically significantly higher in Asbest city.” The incidence of mesothelioma was not studied because Russia does not register that disease separately.
Insanely, the view of many Asbest residents is that there are so many other things to worry about in their heavily industrialized region, including a nuclear power station just a few miles away and an even nearer coal-fired power plant, that asbestos is probably the least of their worries.
“Everything is potentially dangerous,” said Ksyusha Ustinova, a 30-year-old woman who, dressed in a fur-trimmed coat, came with friends last week to peer into the six-mile-long hole on the outskirts of town where asbestos is mined. “Why worry about asbestos so much?”
I wish I could say this is just a bad joke - our President is so full of humorous adventure.
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