Posted on 04/14/2022 9:51:05 PM PDT by logi_cal869
Even before the Manhattan project:
The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with self-luminous paint. The painting was done by women at three different factories, and the term now applies to the women working at the facilities: one in Orange, New Jersey, beginning around 1917; one in Ottawa, Illinois, beginning in the early 1920s; and a third facility in Waterbury, Connecticut, also in the 1920s.
After being told that the paint was harmless, the women in each facility ingested deadly amounts of radium after being instructed to “point” their brushes on their lips in order to give them a fine tip;[1] some also painted their fingernails, face and teeth with the glowing substance. The women were instructed to point their brushes in this way because using rags or a water rinse caused them to use more time and material, as the paint was made from powdered radium, gum arabic and water.
Five of the women in New Jersey challenged their employer in a case over the right of individual workers who contract occupational diseases to sue their employers under New Jersey’s occupational injuries law, which at the time had a two-year statute of limitations, but settled out of court in 1928. Five women in Illinois who were employees of the Radium Dial Company (which was unaffiliated with the United States Radium Corporation) sued their employer under Illinois law, winning damages in 1938.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls
I have a watch bought from Sears around ‘56 that made the physics teacher’s Geiger counter really buzz. Haven’t worn it much since then.
I work at a military base in central Indiana. There is a 20 year old building there that was built on top of what used to be a site for dumping wastes of all kinds. Over the years several people have come down with cancers of different types, etc, no one investigates it. Kind of the same thing happening with these folks I’m sure.
Where is Erin Crock-o-$h!t on this?
It’s not real until she shows up. /sarc.
I wonder if more recent medical experiments were conducted by NIH. In 1954 I was given a series of shots at school as part of a vaccine experiment for Polio(sp).
I believe parts of Woodbridge and the surrounding areas were also Superfund toxic waste cleanup sites.
The above story says 65 people.
Let’s see some documentation for actual people with tumors before running off half-cocked.
Given the location (northeast US), radon could also be a consideration.
Whoa boy, my wife taught at a Middle School in Colonia. Three teachers had cancer.
It seems like as little as ten bucks could answer most of the questions raised in the article: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=geiger+counter&_sacat=0&_sop=15
Is 100 over 47(or 40) years a high number? The article is missing a lot of info that seems critical to me, such as total number of students that have attended the school since 1975. That would provide some context as to the severity/uniqueness surrounding this High School. Remember, the media relies on keeping the "rabble" fearful so they don't focus on the destruction politicians are doing to the state/country.
If this paper wanted to know the truth, all they have to do is invest in a geiger counter and walk around the school
If this paper wanted to know the truth, all they have to do is invest in a geiger counter and walk around the school
Lupiano's still beating the carpet for attention, having assembled the data reported on his own. CBS' report and social media are just the result of that. The numbers merit investigation but the wheels of government are square, not round, and fraught with political bias.
Case in point: If this was about merely 10 'cases' of the virus, all staff & students would have been sent home.
Classes in this case remain scheduled despite scores of rare cancer deaths, a 'cancer cluster'.
There may or not be something to this.
We can’t tell from the abysmal quality of the reportage.
I’m all for checking it out.
But folks should realize they can’t trust government or its enemediot allies to do it for them.
They need to find people they can trust to do it with them. And keep their powder dry while it’s being done.
Sometimes numbers are just weird, they do not always act like we think they should. I was in a small office, 10 people back in the 1980s 2 guys 8 women, 6 of the women had cancer all discovered over a 3 year period.
No argument with that. This is merely the tip of needed public attention, hence the post.
I hope he’s reached someone who can help with this mess.
Statistically, it’s the type of cancer under the definition of ‘cluster’ which merits the attention.
Luciano is apparently the first person to put it together and still no one is investigating.
As I wrote in another comment, if this was a mere 10 cases of ‘the virus’ we’d be seeing a horse of a different color.
Bingo! A reasonable question.
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Cho Bai-Dun and Dr. Fauxi will jump right in and make sure that everyone in the country will be able to share in this exciting new(?) challenge.
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