Trump EPA orders rollback of Obama mercury regulations

Associated Press ^ | December 29, 2018 | Ellen Knickmeyer

[John Locke]

So mercury (more accurately, mercury compounds) are toxic when emitted by coal power plants.

But metallic Mercury is perfectly safe when injected into small children in vaccines, and only a tinfoil hatted lunatic would claim otherwise.

Explanation: as science shows, vaccines are indeed very safe. But the vaccines tested in the lab are not those delivered to the people. The former are just vaccines; the latter have been adulterated with various chemicals to prolong their shelf life. And those chemicals have not even been tested, let alone proven safe.

[Olog-hai]

Thiomersal has been removed from children’s vaccines, JFTR. It’s still present in most adult influenza vaccines, though. It’s not metallic mercury any more than table salt is metallic sodium and gaseous chlorine, but at higher doses it is very toxic, metabolizing to ethyl mercury.

[PIF]

Mercury causes brain damage, learning disabilities and other birth defects in children, among other harm ... blah blah etc ...

Fake science

I and millions of other guys and gals played with mercury as kids - we even ate lead based paint and library paste. The horrors!

[John Locke]

Thank you for your response. Two comments. First, it is still used in popular "multi" vaccines, which are still given to children. Secondly, it is itself unstable: the Hg = S bond is weak, and the compound can spontaneously degenerate into ethyl mercury, which can then be metabolised to yield metallic Hg.

Yours, JL

[SunkenCiv]

Aluminum and Mercury

[P.O.E.]

Very cool, thanks.

[shotgun]

The states will just enact them on their own. Our state Ecology department is already pure evil here in Washington and doesn’t need help from the EPA.