Ah this snowflake generation, propagandized by TV cartoons in their pre-school years and then handed over to government teachers to finish the job of turning them into fearful, self-centered shells of humanity.
As a child during the ‘50s, I was a “flagger” on our farm, flagging the crop dusters who sprayed DDT over our cotton crop to kill the boll weevils. Some of the pilots were not careful about shutting off the insecticide as I stood at the end row of the plot being sprayed and when I got home, I was marinating in DDT. I’m in good health and almost 80. A lot of what we are told is alarmist bunk and perhaps shortens our life because of the stress the media creates with their hysterical warnings about everything.
Again, such exposure doesn’t cause cancer in everyone mishandling such material—only a typically small percentage of them.
There are all kinds of stats showing farmers, farm workers and farm children having elevated cancer rates.
I grew up on a farm as well and my uncle who was in charge of that stuff died relatively young from leukemia. His story, like yours, is anecdotal—but there are stats that will bear out the relationship.
Yep.... I got the field-flagger washdown too.
I even got to see the pilot snag a wheel on the powerline.
Lucky for him it was only one wire and only cause the plane to bobble and wiggle for a few moments.