Do I sound upset ? Crikey! ha ha

Sorry duder ,I am immune to upset and trivialities such as social media comments do not even register as irratation on my ragged toenail scale.

I do attempt to upload the original paper where possible, but when (As is par for the course these days) the publication is behind a paywall and as in this case, without even an abstract ,then the news article has to be the option for the post.

Take care and have an article annoyance free day .

Not my headline and I did not write the article

Here is the actual report ,crikey you have to pay for it !!.. Well what a bummer ,there is the reason for posting the news article instead of the actual report…Happy Now ?

Large Study Links Industrial Solvent in Drinking Water to Parkinson Disease Risk in Camp Lejeune Veterans

Neurologist Samuel Goldman, MD, MPH, had long felt obligated to dive into the question of whether the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that had contaminated the drinking water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune up to the mid-1980s were associated with an increased risk of Parkinson disease.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2805182

Personally I found the statement in the image below to be more informative and was probably composed by a more mature hand, at least it made me chuckle.

As did the journalistic capabilities of the academic who wrote that article!

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It is not quite as the BBC (as usual) tries to skew the story a wholly UK wide problem, it is a problem in England simply because England has privatised water and the private utility companies involved skim the profits off the top without reinvesting in infrastructure.

In Scotland water is nationalised ,although not perfect as there is still some farm run off and leaching along with a certain amount of storm drain overflowing during severe weather,most rivers are pretty good and there is no effluent in the drinking water.

I would say that slavery could perhaps be considered an occupational hazard!

Slavery or the imprisoning /detaining personel against their will to enforce labour was once common in farming ,construction and many other industries in this country and probably still goes on.

Gangs would (and probably still do) convince unwitting refugees to come over here to work for them on the promise of great wages and full board. Once here these people would be kept in shacks,caravans and the likes, but usually in overcrowded slum conditions, threatened with violence or beaten daily and forced to work without pay or for food (if they were lucky)

A few years back the construction industry raised awareness of this problem and asked the workforce to be vigilant,to keep their eyes open and report any signs or suspicions of enforced labour. Thanks to this awareness campaign many of these gangs were caught and imprisoned ,thousands of illegally detained people were released… The car wash app was set up for a similar purpose

Raising awareness on the subject of occupational hazards is not solely about RPE ,employees face many risks and many hazards…

As for car washing ,PPE required would be waterproof footwear and clothing ,protective gloves , eye protection, a respirator for use when cleaning the inside of dirty vehicles , a respirator would also be required when the likes of chemical sprays, special waxes, sealers, body finishes or any other solvents were in use… Take care

Masks are only supposed to be used as the very last resort ,it matters not a jot if you have a top of the range respirator ,in those conditions workers could put a new filter in their masks every morning and they would still be breathing in dust . No fit is ever perfect and they all leak.

There simply should be no people working in such areas, full stop. Not even if they were kitted out with PAPR respirators and the unit had a regulator specified and fully certified LEV system running 24/7. These are areas where only machines should be employed . But once again it all comes down to production costs and profit…People are cheap. Take care ,stay safe and dust free.

Silica is in many things and widely used everywhere, apart from the obvious dusty trades,sandblasters ,stonemasons,bricklayers,plasters,roofers,painters and decorators, demolition workers frackers ,miners, quarrymen and highway workers.

Plumbers,electricians,refractory workers ,military personnel,tech workers ,lorry and machine drivers ,jewelers ,dental technicians ,farmers,foundry workers,glass workers,horse trainers,potters,metal grinders ,greenhouse gardeners and even teachers of old have been known to succumb to the masons cough ( Which was once known as Potters Rot )and/or one or more of the myriad of silica associated diseases .

( My apologies if I missed anyone out )

Unfortunately there is no known or quantifiable safe occupational limit for silica exposure (Despite what the corporately owned politicians and regulators quote as fact ) and respirators are only supposed to be used as the very last resort ,none are 100% efficient ,they all leak ,hence the coding .

Q: How do you know space is infinite?

A: How do you know it is not ?

Conclusion : Space is infinitely unknown !

But yes ,great to see folk not only questioning these authors and articles but actually fact checking them as well ,rather than taking what is written in any given publication at type face value, and the whole idea of this page .

That is exactly how my friend describes his condition only he said people just look like sheep ,which they are. The hospital gave him a yellow shield lanyard and badge to wear when he was first diagnosed which read something like 'If I do not recognise you it is because I suffer from Prosopagnosia ’ He stills wears these on public transport because as he would put it " Nobody has a fuckin clue what Prosopagnosia is but they think I must be really ill so somebody usually gives me a seat "… ha ha

Crikey !That must be very difficult to deal with,I hope you cope and all is well.

I have a friend who developed a similar condition due to a brain injury. From what he tells me he can still see faces as normal just as he did before and can actually recognise some faces as who they are,face to face so to speak ,but photographs are very difficult for him especially group photos ,even of family , to him the faces in his family photographs have recognisably different features, but he does not see in these images anyone he knows,just random people. Quite bizarre ,I suppose every case is different though .

Stay safe ,best wishes and I hope you have a most excellent day ,or night wherever you are .

This is the problem though ,it would take a book to cover all the practical difficulties on how to safely handle any hazardous material on site.

There are fabrication shops these days where humans play no part in the manufacturing process apart from the programming of the machines and pushing a button ,all the cutting is carried out using various methods in sealed units .(Although these yards produce their own serious environmental issues )

What computerised machines in sealed units can not do though is take the prefabricated piece of whatever and install it into it’s intended home ,you need Homo sapiens for this purpose and unfortunately this is where dust becomes airborne.

And that is just on new build or installation projects ,once you enter into the big outside world of restoration,renovation,alterations,conservation, demolition,tunneling,mining,crushing ,hydraulic fracturing …etc etc ,you enter a world where dust has to be created no matter how you handle whatever material has to be removed or altered.

There are thousands of expensive dust reducing safety products out there everything from surfactants to vacuums,not all are practical and none are 100% efficient.

The answer is making sure the workforce is aware of the dangers through training and education,regular health monitoring, and it would also be beneficial to have a functioning safety regulator!

Abrading power tools creating very fine particulate dust is a problem no matter what you are cutting or grinding whether that be concrete,natural stone , asphalt or whatever.

But it is not just the power tools creating even finer silica particles when applied to engineered stone though, it’s a mixture of everything thrown into the matrix of these quartz conglomerates being ground into respirable dust,the resins ,metals and some lower end slabs have even been found to contain toxic waste.

And with quartz being piezoelectric when fractured ,the tiny particles created seem to attract other nasty particles including the heavy metals and resin particles from not only within the engineered stoneslabs themselves ,but also from the abrading buffs and blades.

Obviously it is a bit more complicated than that ,but yip the engineered stuff not only makes finer dust it also contains a higher percentage of other nasties you would not want to get into your lungs or system .

Cutting engineered stones generated high concentrations of very fine particles (< 1 µm) with > 80% respirable crystalline silica content, in the form of quartz and cristobalite. Engineered stones also contained 8–20% resin and 1–8% by weight metal elements.

In comparison, natural stones had far lower respirable crystalline silica (4- 30%) and much higher metal content, 29–37%.

Natural stone dust emissions also had a smaller surface area than engineered stone, as well as lower surface charge.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8921240/

I’m curious …Did you read this pages description ?

Agreed, the headline is pure clickbait …Roaarrr …eow !

Those experiments to determine whether bee’s or chimps could learn 'from others of their own species ’ how to solve complex puzzles current human understanding considered to be out with their capabilities were rather pointless then !

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