🧵UPDATE: I just spoke with an East Palestine OH resident who’s house was deemed too toxic for her family to return to. “We are getting sicker and sicker. An entire community is being poisoned slowly in front of the nation.” #EastPalestineOH
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Norfolk Southern has repeatedly offered her to pay for her relocation—AFTER she spoke out to national news. She told me her whole family is sick as are her neighbors throughout the town. Bronchitis, vomiting, nosebleeds, dizziness, splitting headaches to name a few symptoms…
When I asked her what she thought of national media like @nytimes and those outside of the town minimizing the catastrophe and attacking people equating the explosion to Chernobyl—she broke down in tears. “The news isn’t telling the truth…EVERYONE is sick. We need help now.”
She said the doctors in town don’t even know what to tell residents. They are not equipped or knowledgeable to treat these kind of petrochemical-induced exposures. She doesn’t know what to do
She & others I spoke w/ are worried once media inevitably leaves. They feel like they are not getting the answers, transparency, & resources they need. @StatusCoup @louisd217 will be ON-THE-GROUND all week showing what's REALLY going on in East Palestine and other effected towns.
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