The proposed rule, aimed at reducing exposure to a potent neurotoxin, would require water systems nationwide to replace lead pipes that carry tap water to homes, schools and offices

  • Flying Squid
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    Watch Republicans argue that lead is good for kids.

    • @CosmicTurtle
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      187 months ago

      Nah. That’s not the playbook.

      Whenever kids (actual, post birth kids) need protecting, it’s all about “who’s going to pay” or “taxes are already high” or “but that will be really inconvenient to the upper middle class”.

      The best excuse I’ve heard for a bill that would protect kids from pedophiles was “the bill would unfairly target conservatives”. I can’t remember if this was a federal bill or a local bill but I remember it coming up and people saying “You’re telling on yourself.”

    • @Sterile_Technique
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      157 months ago

      I’d be interested to see map of lead pipe concentration vs one of political affiliation.

      • @grue
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        You’re going to see a map of older areas, that is, urban cores and inner-ring suburbs. In other words, I don’t think you’re going to find the correlation you’re probably hoping for.

        To be fair, though, the official government line – uh, until today, I guess – is that lead water mains weren’t actually a problem because of the large volume of water flowing through them relative to the rate of corrosion, unless you did something stupid (like the Republican governor-appointed emergency manager did to Flint) to cause them to corrode abnormally rapidly. Hopefully there isn’t much of a widespread correlation between political affiliation and brain damage from exposure to lead via plumbing at all.

    • @Buffaloaf
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      I’m pretty sure lead is what makes people conservatives. Look at when there was lead in things like paint and every car burned leaded gas.

      • @Jessvj93
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        Biologist here, it gives you adhd (60% chance), autism, and cerebellar Hypodysplasia (cant remember the incidence rate for these last two, but want to say CH is 8%). Child abuses causes conservativism lol, but lead causes developmental defects starting as early as the embryo.

        Source: “Half of US Population Exposed to Adverse Lead Levels in Early Childhood,” Michael J. McFarland, Matt E. Hauer, Aaron Reuben. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 7, 2022. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2118631119

        • @halcyoncmdr
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          27 months ago

          To believe what current US conservatives are claiming now, you have to be developmentally defective at this point.

      • bluGill
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        Chicago proves you wrong. Chicago mandated lead pipes long after everyone else was phasing it out. They have high levels of violence now, often believed in part because of that lead, and they are known as a place where liberals have been in control for forever.

    • @almar_quigley
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      67 months ago

      Flashbacks to watching republican politicians eat that pink goo filler crap they put into meat that was controversial for a minute.

      • Flying Squid
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        Eating lead paint chips made me the man I am today!