Once Upon a Time,

[SoCalDem]

picnic lunches, visors & sun glasses were part of a Nuke Testing Tour for visitors to Vegas...there was nothing to fear from our friendly Atom-Smashing tests..They were a sight to behold...and a fun family excursion.. Our government told us it was safe..

The area near St George Utah was also perfectly safe.. The movie industry loved that area for filming their westerns, and lots of time was spent there by some of the biggest box-office movie stars, who kicked up & breathed in a lot of that red dust.. many of them succumbed to rare & deadly cancers..as did many of the crews who worked there..

Soldiers (probably never will know the numbers) died years later from their casual (and perfectly safe) contact with nuclear testing devices while in the military...follow orders soldier, your government knows this is safe for you...(and by the time you get sick and are dying from it, we will refuse you disability and will claim no responsibility for your illness)

As a child, I played (with all the neighborhood kids) in the DDT fog that was wafted over us twice a day for almost 9 years (Panama Canal zone).. We followed the trucks on our bikes & played "Foggy Day".. We had no glass in the windows of our base housing & the stuff billowed throughout the house, leaving a greasy residue on everything. Twice a day we wiped it up..My mother used to make a tent from receiving blankets to drape over my brother's crib, so he would not get "greased" at naptime . This was necessary..and safe, since the dreaded anopheles mosquito was to be feared above all else.

With so many toxins in our environment, people will die from something they ingested, breathed in or were somehow exposed to many years earlier, and probably over a lifetime, the interaction of all these exposures finally hits critical mass, but there's very seldom a "flashing light" that goes off to warn you that "this is it".. There is no "Danger, Will Robinson" moment.

This is why scientists/experts/govt officials feel secure in downplaying the dangers of so many things.. they know that down the line it will be virtually impossible to pin the tail on their donkey..

[Bluerthanblue]

1. k&r!

:hi:

[gateley]

2. Recommend! And just because our surroundings aren't throbbing day-glo

orange, doesn't mean it's not THERE.

I don't understand why people think, for example, this radioactivity affects only Japan. It affects the world, IMO.

Great post! :headbang:

[Mojorabbit]

3. We used to play in the fog too

as children on a base in the Azores Islands. That is why when I see a published article like was posted yesterday saying alcohol can cause cancer that I laugh. There is so much background toxins out there that something is going to get you eventually. It is a shame what we have done to the earth.

[SoCalDem]

4. We are a composite of all we are exposed to, and since we all die

unless you get hit by a train or get murdered, it's probably always a death of accumulated "stuff" that takes longer to kill some than others:(