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[stols001]

Well I believe it may be due to the fact that they start out morbid.

@Asbestos4004 , have you not yet subscribed fully to the theory that vaping will kill us all? I know it's hard to swallow and everything, but you need a ACCEPT vaping will kill us all... One way or another.

I'd like to die in my bed, vape in hand. The bed and the vape will be blamed, I'm quite certain. If you don't know how dangerous beds are, you should check out those "safety" stats they put out on the dangers of mattresses.... A lot of people die on one. LOL.

Anna

 

[90VG]

I edited the post and removed that part.

 

[Asbestos4004]

Well I believe it may be due to the fact that they start out morbid.

@Asbestos4004 , have you not yet subscribed fully to the theory that vaping will kill us all? I know it's hard to swallow and everything, but you need a ACCEPT vaping will kill us all... One way or another.

I'd like to die in my bed, vape in hand. The bed and the vape will be blamed, I'm quite certain. If you don't know how dangerous beds are, you should check out those "safety" stats they put out on the dangers of mattresses.... A lot of people die on one. LOL.

Anna

My screen name isn't coincidental....I tear down buildings for a living. More often than not, that involves asbestos removal.

If vaping is what gets me, I'll be shocked...

 

[stols001]

Yeah, I guess I should have said, "Vaping will be blamed." LOL.

Hopefully asbestos removal isn't as dire as it used to be. The State hospital for the Mentally Ill I interned in many decades ago shrunk drastically but they wound up bulldozing most of it when it closed (or whatever they do with elderly buildings laden with that stuff) or shrunk, or whatever, remediation wasn't possible.

It was kind of an interesting place, they had a museum with a real "lobotomy chair" (speaking of dismal) but I was kind of pleased to see one in person.

Anna

 

[90VG]

My woodstove chimney is asbestos. I got it California, they had a sale on pipe. It's sealed, so it doesn't matter, but it's very nice.

 

[Beamslider]

Unless you are drinking distilled water, you are getting more of your RDA of Heavy Toxic Metals from water than from vaping.

 

[Beamslider]

Yeah, I guess I should have said, "Vaping will be blamed." LOL.

Hopefully asbestos removal isn't as dire as it used to be. The State hospital for the Mentally Ill I interned in many decades ago shrunk drastically but they wound up bulldozing most of it when it closed (or whatever they do with elderly buildings laden with that stuff) or shrunk, or whatever, remediation wasn't possible.

It was kind of an interesting place, they had a museum with a real "lobotomy chair" (speaking of dismal) but I was kind of pleased to see one in person.

Anna

A building I worked in back in the 80s had the asbestos removed. Cost a fortune. They put plastic sheeting everywhere with double doors of the heavy plastic curtains on the rooms they were working in. They set up some equipment to keep a negative air flow in the working area and heavy duty air filters. The crews working on it wore those tyvek space suits too.

On a lighter side, I remember about 12 years ago the Bay Bridge was shutdown for 12 or more hours. There was a white powder spilled on it and they had no idea what it was. They closed the bridge and collected a sample using their space suits and sent a sample to be tested. Took them all day. Turned out it was wheat flour that spilled out of a delivery truck.

 

[5cardstud]

 

[DaveP]

My woodstove chimney is asbestos. I got it California, they had a sale on pipe. It's sealed, so it doesn't matter, but it's very nice.

If there's danger it's probably the neighbors who'd get the most asbestos hit. Wind is probably your friend.

My Dad was a small business heating and A/C contractor who did most of the work with one helper. Cutting and stapling fiberglass insulation creates floating fibers. When he was in his 60s his doctor told me that my Dad's lungs on an X-ray were some of the worst he'd ever seen. Back then no one wore respirators since OSHA wasn't on the scene. That made me build a dust collector and use breathing protection in my basement woodworking shop. Before that I could shine a flashlight across the basement after turning off the lights and see the floating dust particles sparkle.

 

[DaveP]

On a lighter side, I remember about 12 years ago the Bay Bridge was shutdown for 12 or more hours. There was a white powder spilled on it and they had no idea what it was. They closed the bridge and collected a sample using their space suits and sent a sample to be tested. Took them all day. Turned out it was wheat flour that spilled out of a delivery truck.

I have a nephew who works at Robins AFB. His section grit blasts paint from airplanes and gets them ready for repainting. He has to enter and leave through a clean room module where he dons his space suit before entering the work area. When they leave it's back through the airlock where they get decontaminated, showered, and back into street clothes.

I suppose that is a result of work related lung issues in past decades doing that job. OSHA has done some good, in spite of the headaches they've added to the workplace.

 

[ScottP]

I suppose that is a result of work related lung issues in past decades doing that job. OSHA has done some good, in spite of the headaches they've added to the workplace.

Oh it is no doubt because of work related lung issues that these practices are in place. The question is was it really because of OSHA or because of the "Work Related Injury/Death" Lawyers getting rich of the lawsuits? Sometimes getting sued and losing millions can inspire change faster than any government bureaucracy.

 

[DaveP]

Oh it is no doubt because of work related lung issues that these practices are in place. The question is was it really because of OSHA or because of the "Work Related Injury/Death" Lawyers getting rich of the lawsuits? Sometimes getting sued and losing millions can inspire change faster than any government bureaucracy.

It's probably both. Workers are becoming acutely aware of the occupational hazards and employers are more and more concerned about class action suits.