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We as a country have spent the last 40 years trying to reduce the number of asbesto lined products and this guy is wanting to bring them back lol.
Yeah how dare he present you with some evidence!?!
Lets argue with emotions instead
Well at least they can look forward to their tax dollars cleaning up another mess created by corporations.https://archpaper.com/2018/08/epa-asbestos-manufacturing/
hey, but at least you have free healthcare so you can deal with those asbestos related illnesses right guys?
btw russians are grateful:
trump supporters, you still against agencies regulating the free market? enjoy your deteriorating health.
I am not defending asbestos. If it is being used as non encapsulated fibers it is dangerous.
I want to know in what form this asbestos is coming in.
There are very few applications where I would justify it but I have no problem with it being used in those limited applications where it can be used safely and where there is no good substitute.
I will complain if it is going to be misused. I would just like to know how it is intended to be used first.
Actually polyurethane foams are quite dangerous and can cause asthma through skin contact.Actually what you mean is, it is the cheapest and easiest option. This is nothing but a big steaming dump on worker safety for $$$$$$$
Polyurethane foams
Flour fillers
Cellulose fibres
Thermoset plastic flour
Amorphous silica fabrics
Fibreglass, PBI fibre, ceramic fibre and bio soluble alternatives
Not to mention the 60 or so substitutes for every kind of asbestos cement.
The asbestos fiber travels through your lung tissue into the meso layer that encases your lungs where it causes mesothelioma. But that takes around thirty years to happen. You may be dead already by then so what’s the big deal.Yeah, I was always taught that one asbestos fiber getting in your lungs could f you up. I'd have to look it up.
They are risking your life and health for the benefit of making a shit ton of money to buy more designer jeans.Meh, we allow all sorts of extremely harmful products to be used in a variety of circumstances. A complete ban on asbestos seems a bit silly, to be honest, and a "When the benefits outweigh the risks, it should be allowed" approach doesn't seem unreasonable to me. Are we sure that this isn't just a knee jerk response, so far, in this thread?
Are you sure your plastic suit was able to protect you? You may have inhaled some fibers.Do you seriously not know why the use of asbestos was so widespread, or is this just one of those "ANSWER THE QUESTION SO I CAN PICK IT APART FOR A GOTCHA MOMENT?" posts? Look it up if you want to find out - the information is readily available, as it was a widely used industrial product. Having had to remove asbestos from houses before I'm well aware of the potential risks, and how unfortunate it is to spend your day in a big plastic suit with a respirator on, but the simple fact is that it's far from the only dangerous industrial product in use today. If there is a situation in which the use outweighs the benefit, proper safety measures are taken, and everyone involved is aware, I don't see why it couldn't be used on a case by case basis with significant oversight and controls.
I think that’s in the works sadly.I wonder if agent orange will make a comeback?
There's some sadists for sure but I think most of them have a cost-benefits approach to the whole thing and have no qualms with sacrificing lives if it makes them richer.Sometimes I think there really are rich dudes in pin striped suits, smoking cigars, twirling their pencil thin mustaches, while coming up with diabolodia plots to kill people in mass and milking every last penny out of their dying hands.
All of then? Does all usage of foams require skin contact?Actually polyurethane foams are quite dangerous and can cause asthma through skin contact.
Sorry if I came off hostile, but if you framed your initial response as something closer to the lines of "it's a bad material and should have very limited, if any, uses in construction, but out of principle I would handle it with something other than a blanket ban", then we might have found common ground sooner.