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Re: You can't just wash that asbestos right out of your bed



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Ken wrote:

> Walter Driedger wrote:
> >
> > Back to the very beginning of this thread -- We have someone telling us that
> > the city exists in a cloud of asbestos dust due to old plaster.  Read the
> > first post.  Now we have someone telling us that the average citizen
> > "...used to receive more asbestos exposure on the street corner waiting for
> > a traffic light than ANY other place in life..."  Now what is it?  I have no
> > doubt there is a hazard but I get such exaggerated BS.  Really, if I put all
> > the statements together we must all be dead.  Then I get another post that
> > says even a 'miniscule' exposure is deadly.  Well we've all had at least
> > 'miniscule' exposures.  That's what the posts are telling us.  But we are
> > not dead.  I'm not dead, you're not dead.  So give us a clue, what is the
> > risk?  I know this, about 40,000 get killed in North America every year from
> > auto accidents.  this is a risk I, and hundreds of millions of others are
> > willing to face every day.  I also know that 40,000 don't get killed from
> > mesothelioma. so very clearly a miniscule amount is not likely to kill me.
> > Is the probability one in a million? or what?
> >
> > I am trying very hard to "GET Educated" but I'm having a bit of trouble.
>
> http://hazard.com/msds/gn.cgi?query=asbestos
>
> --
> Ken Tyler

    Ken..some folks just cannot see the light for the glare in their
over-sensitive eyes.
    To READ is now a MALICIOUS thing???  HISTORY does NOT exist???
    To the closed mind...Asbestos is also a NON existent problem!  Let's face
reality!
     B-0b1




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