Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train derailment

Re:Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train... by Workaccount2 on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @10:59AM (#34791236)

I'm not denying the accident was bad, I'm tempering an unwarranted level of hysteria for what is another small scale industrial accident.

People are drumming up hysteria for political capital, but its not fair to people who live in Ohio or Pennsylvania and now think they can't use their water, they're doomed to cancer at 45, and their kids will be mutants.

It's being blown way of of proportion to the reality of it. It also why expert testimony is so thin. You'd think by now all the experts would be pouring out to condemn the government. Meanwhile the best NPR could get was one sentence about potential indoor air quality issues going forward (which the EPA report addresses with "no concerning levels detected".

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Re:Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train... by colpabar on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @11:11AM (#34791452)

> People are drumming up hysteria for political capital, but its not fair to people who live in Ohio or Pennsylvania and now think they can't use their water, they're doomed to cancer at 45, and their kids will be mutants.

Can you show me a single comment on this website and not on reddit that is saying those things? Also, did you know that the EPA also said that all the dust in the air on 9/11 was perfectly safe? I am not implying malice here, but sometimes the authorities are just wrong, so it seems naive to just believe them.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/10/epa-head-wro...

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Re:Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train... by voxl on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @11:38AM (#34791887)

This website is not the only place discussing this matter, and it is a strawman to continue requiring any evidence of public outcry be limited to specifically this website. Moreover, reddit is not the only other place discussing this. There are hundreds of videos on TikTok from people in Ohio that are saying this is a horrible disaster on par with Chernobyl.

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Re:Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train... by xadhominemx on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @11:23AM (#34791662)

How about this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34773513#34774984

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Re:Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train... by dsfyu404ed on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @12:05PM (#34792366)

>Can you show me a single comment on this website

Ask and ye shall receive, from this very thread:

> This is a total disaster that will impact the health of people in the area for generations.[1]

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34791609

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Re:Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train... by giantg2 on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @11:08AM (#34791395)

Because people don't trust the government and the companies on stuff like this. "BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!", isn't exactly what people want to hear years after many of these sorts of accidents. Which has happened in the past. I mean, it took 2 weeks just to disclose additional chemicals in this incident.

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Re:Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train... by chaps on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @11:17AM (#34791551)

I'm not sure why you think this is blown out of proportion. The fact that they had fear of the train car explode and cause a much worse disaster (ie, not small scale) cannot and should not be written off.

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Re:Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train... by mrguyorama on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @12:09PM (#34792437)

People all over social media are calling this "Chernobyl", which is absurd.

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Re:Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train... by Apocryphon on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @12:24PM (#34792691)

A lot are also calling this "Bhopal"

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