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Feb 13 • 21 tweets • 12 min read
NEW TOXINS IDENTIFIED—“We basically nuked a town with chemicals so we could get a railroad open,” said Sil Caggiano, a hazardous materials specialist. Rail company Norfolk Southern is paying just $25k to the town, or ~$5 per resident.🧵

HT @therecount
2) DRINKING WATER now endangered. East Palestine police in Ohio is warning that drinking water may be "at-risk" for some people.

A task group is going door-to-door to test water.

HT @therecount
3) Yesterday I advocated potentially warning and advising everyone within 50 mile radius to be on high alert after the vinyl chloride rail spill. Here is 50 miles… it includes all the way to Pittsburgh!
4) Here are the 3 new chemicals identified in the Ohio rail spill, besides vinyl chloride—

Ethylene glycol monobutyl ether (bad for central nervous system)
ilo.org/dyn/icsc/showc…

Ethylhexyl acrylate (bad for GI/ulcers)
arkema.com/files/live/sit… nj.gov/health/eoh/rtk…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
5) there is no way you can try to convince me this Ohio rail plume is okay for local residents or anyone downwind of the plume.
6) I would not move back to Eastern Ohio area or the Western Pa areas downwind of it until extensive testing of air water and soil shows it is safe. My thread 🧵 yesterday 👇
7) the real long term health effects won’t be know for years or decades down the road. By then insurance companies and corporations and politicians will have moved on. The untold risks are rarely uncovered (unless by diligent epidemiologists… yes, us again) who research it.
8) if you smell chemicals in the air — definitely stay far far away. Many residents in even neighboring counties also smell the chemicals. They should all evacuate.
9) Anyone saying it’s safe to return is completely lying to you. Burning vinyl chloride is a horrible thing that will pollute the air water and soil for years and likely decades. @GovMikeDeWine needs to evacuate the entire region of the plume. @JoshShapiroPA needs to monitor the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
10) “My chickens were perfectly fine before, and as soon as they started the burn, my chickens slowed down and they died,”

“If it can do this to chickens in one night, imagine what it’s going to do to us in 20 years”

Yeah—evacuate your families. ⚠️
wkbn.com/news/local-new…
11) Let’s check which way the toxic chemical plume is moving… EAST to Pennsylvania— specifically SOUTHEAST towards Pittsburgh! #trainderailment #OhioTrainDisaster
12) Years ago, I created a free early warning website called Toxin Alert. Back then there was no interest. I might bring it back if people are interested… I’ve been warning about these stuff for years.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…
13) 70 miles southeast of the train derailment where the chemical burn started… this is what came down in the rain 🌧️— it’s likely highly acidic rain combined with soot. You don’t want to breath this shit, not to mention LIVE in it.
14) over 1,000,000 pounds of Vinyl Chloride leaked, spilled and burned. We are talking about an ecological disaster for years to come… water and soil … agriculture and human health disaster. Thanks @nscorp - thanks for skimping on train upgrades and skipping new brake system.
15) Was this just a freak accident that couldn’t have been prevented by @nscorp? Norfolk Southern actually lobbied to kill federal safety rules around upgraded train braking requirements. Those brakes could have likely dropped the derailment. NS has blood 🩸 on its hands.
16) “THESE ARE NOT EFFING STORM CLOUDS”—the frustrated resident says: the contents of the train could have been transferred into tankers but instead it was set on fire to save time and money.
#OhioChernobyl
17) Reminder— Norfolk Southern @nscorp chose to do a $10 billion stock buyback instead of investing on worker pay or train safety—especially needed brake replacements. Never forget — we need to sue NS executives to the ground.

nscorp.com/content/nscorp…
18) And hell yes the rail companies like Norfolk Southern are responsible - they actively lobbied to block safety rules around new brake requirements. @nscorp executives and lobbyists have blood 🩸 on their hands.
#OhioChernobyl #OhioTrainDisaster
levernews.com/rail-companies…
19) “I am concerned that the area has been deemed safe so quickly without extensive data to show [it],” says a chemist.

A @nscorp spokesperson concedes: “it’s hard to tell what was burned off and what went into the soil.”🔥

By @prem_thakker
newrepublic.com/post/170570/li…
20) I wrote a summary of the Ohio train disaster situation: (free to subscribe)

Ohio’s “Chernobyl” was entirely preventable—but now we have an environmental disaster
drericding.substack.com/p/ohios-cherno…
21) projectile vomiting in the middle of the night and multiple kids sick is not normal. @StatusCoup

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Feb 14
“Controlled” release burn 🔥 is a weird kind of corporate doublespeak. This will hurt millions of people in OH/PA for years to come. But hey—at least @nscorp did a $10 bil stock buyback to pump their shares instead of upgrading 🚊brakes. #OhioChernobyl
It wasn’t just Vinyl Chloride. There were several other toxic chemicals. See thread 🧵— we didn’t need to sacrifice the town to reopen the railroad so quickly damnit.
3) Someone should legally burn 🔥 for this— @nscorp executives and lobbyists.
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Feb 12
Gosh—Thousands of gallons of carcinogenic vinyl chloride has spilled and burned in Ohio from a 50-train car derailment. Nobody in the media is talking much about it. I wouldn’t move back to the town or that area for a while if I were living near there. fastcompany.com/90848025/ohio-…
2) the local govt often downplays these risks and tells people it’s safe to go back. It’s not. @dennismhogan shares the story of his father being told its safe to do ground zero cleanup of another spill.:: except he died relatively soon at age 55 of cancer after he worked there.
3) And now the @EPA says it’s safe to return?
@EPAMichaelRegan needs to reassess and think again. It’s not safe in East Palestine Ohio yet. Read this:
fastcompany.com/90848025/ohio-…
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Feb 11
OMG—When the MRI machine was turned on, the magnetic 🧲 force pulled his gun from his waistband & it discharged—the bullet struck him in the abdomen—killing him. He was an advocate of gun ownership and encouraged people on TikTok/Instagram to collect guns.
kiro7.com/news/trending/…
2) de Novaes had accompanied his mother to get an MRI scan at a facility in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Jan. 16, and took a handgun into the room, carrying it in his waistband.
According to officials, both the attorney and his mother were told to remove any metal object they had before… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
3) to stop an bad MRI with a gun, we clearly need a good MRI with a gun. Right, right?
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Feb 2
DON’T RECOMMEND USING THIS—the #COVID antiviral #molnupiravir is basically a genetic🧬 grenade that kills viruses but also spawns new mutant variants—new study finds mutant SARS2 coronaviruses SURVIVE & COMPETE! Dr @WmHaseltine: “WE ARE COURTING DISASTER”.
science.org/content/articl…
2) A widely used COVID-19 drug may be driving the appearance of new SARS-CoV-2 variants, sparking concerns it could prolong and even reinvigorate the pandemic. The drug, molnupiravir, produced by Merck & Co., is designed to kill the virus by inducing mutations in the viral genome
3) A survey of viral genomes reported in a new preprint, however, suggests some people treated generate novel viruses that not only remain viable, but spread.
“It’s clear that viable mutant viruses can survive [molnupiravir] & compete [with existing variants],” says @WmHaseltine
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Jan 28
"It's over"... except the virus doesn’t care what we think, only what we do about it.

Hope everyone learns ventilation & air disinfection & importance of high quality masks. Vaccines currently are the insurance backup.

#CovidIsNotOver #COVIDIsAirborne
2) Do you want to develop #LongCovid? Do you want to acquire a new autoimmune disease? I wouldn’t want any of these conditions. Don’t play COVID infection roulette.
3) it’s not just me reminding you how much COVID is risky. US @federalreserve chair Powell also warns about labor workforce damage from COVID.
Read 4 tweets
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Jan 27
⚠️NEW ONSET AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE—New study in 640k patients shows that #SARSCoV2 infection leads to ⬆️43% increased risk of developing **new-onset autoimmune diseases** after acute #COVID19 over. Another autoimmune disorder also exacerbated ⬆️23%. Not good!
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
2) Also, the new onset autoimmune diseases risk is seen in both women and men; young and old, and notably both hospitalized and NON-HOSPITALIZED #COVID19 patients. Ergo— it’s not just a problem in formerly severe patients.
3) Whoa — ⬆️ 55% higher risk of developing new onset Celiac disease after #COVID19 infection?! Wowzers.
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