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Re:Half of American kids have lead in their blood, doctors say by Igelau on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @02:25PM (#28685860)
> any concentration

I'm curious. If there's lead in the water, the air, the soil, the food we eat, is zero even possible? Is there a baseline "side effect of living on Earth" level, even if it's very slight?

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Re:Half of American kids have lead in their blood, doctors say by sparker72678 on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @05:54PM (#28687977)
This.

The death rate of being human is 100%. Every five minutes there's some new paper or study letting us all know why we should be afraid of something new.

I'm not saying this particular study is necessarily scare-mongering, but good grief is it tiring to see this stuff all day every day, without any scale of risk for context.

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