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There's a mountain range better between DC and Ohio. All of Ohio drains in to the Great Lakes or ultimately the Mississippi, so not an issue.

Cops are fucking cowards

We should definitely wait until the police investigate themselves

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You literally just compared the two! I'm not saying you're wrong about the fact that there will be lasting impacts, but OP is taking about evacuating DC because of an incident in Ohio. That is just patently ridiculous.

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I'm not comparing it to Chernobyl. I am saying that an ecological disaster isn't over because the immediate explosion has stopped.

I'm not saying it's not bad. I'm saying that insane fear mongering, such as comparing this to Cherbobyl, is the mark of people unable to tamp down on their anxieties about everything and thus shouldn't be taken seriously.

Why are people downvoting this? It’s a serious concern. Good lord.

Actually I do think we have very few reliable non-lethal ways to stop someone intent on harming you. Most ways of stopping them reliably pose a significant risk of killing them.

It was cocaine, they stated later. Also the driver of the car fled. Possible a weapon was dropped in there but seems like there won’t be proof of that

YIKES

"An accident that is already over" is a weird way to talk about an ecological disaster.

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Chernobyl is already over.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/11/health/ohio-train-derailment-white-noise/index.html

There's nothing wrong with making yourself an air cleaner with a box fan and HEPA filters from Lowes, changing your HVAC filter, and perhaps buying a water filter for drinking water. It's just common sense, not paranoia or anti-government.

You were being vague, maybe unintentionally, when you say that EPA stated air near Ground Zero was safe and you didn’t say anything about a lack of proper evidence.

Regardless, that was 20 years ago.

Did you look at the extensive information they have posted to the site I linked regarding the current event?

Don’t get me wrong. I have no doubt that immediate area is a pollutant shitshow. And we will probably learn that while getting exposed to chemicals X, Y, or Z at certain levels isn’t going to kill you, getting exposed to the XYZ cocktail at the dose the poor people who live next to the tracks won’t be so good.

There's nothing wrong with making yourself an air cleaner with a box fan and HEPA filters from Lowes, changing your HVAC filter, and perhaps buying a water filter for drinking water. It's just common sense, not paranoia or anti-government.

How so? The first takeaway in that report confirms what I said, they stated the air was safe without the proper evidence that was required to do so.

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It’s a little more nuanced than that:

https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-12/documents/wtc_report_20030821.pdf

Then don’t ask us, just GTFO

Nothing in any concentration to be of concern would make it here