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The Norfolk Southern 100-car train derailment that created a toxic chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio is being studied by 15 U.S. government investigators and now 7 of them have experiencing illness symptoms even after the feds said the water is safe to drink, while not actually drinking it themselves. [H/T The Daily Wire]
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which includes members of the Epidemic Intelligence Service [an oxymoron if there ever was one] reported to CNN that almost half the crew felt sick while surveying homes of the town's residents near the contaminated areas.
Pete Buttigieg, our so called Transportation Secretary had visited East Palestine weeks after the disaster occurred and thought it was all clear, but now he says that he's concerned his chest milk might be contaminated and he doesn't know what to do about feeding his baby.
“Symptoms resolved for most team members later the same afternoon, and everyone resumed work on survey data collection within 24 hours,” a CDC spokesperson told the network. “Impacted team members have not reported ongoing health effects.” No deaths of team members have been reported as of now.
Local and state authorities previously evacuated all residents within one mile of the February 3 derailment and started a controlled burn of substances on the vehicle. It's as if the contamination knows that a mile is a safe distance, like 6 feet is a safe distance to prevent Covid from killing you.
“Symptoms resolved for most team members later the same afternoon, and everyone resumed work on survey data collection within 24 hours,” a CDC spokesperson told the network. “Impacted team members have not reported ongoing health effects.” No deaths of team members have been reported as of now.
Local and state authorities previously evacuated all residents within one mile of the February 3 derailment and started a controlled burn of substances on the vehicle. It's as if the contamination knows that a mile is a safe distance, like 6 feet is a safe distance to prevent Covid from killing you.
Five of those train cars emitted vinyl chloride in huge plumes of black smoke visible throughout eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania. Vinyl chloride is a human carcinogen that's used in the manufacturing of PVC. Residents in the town have since raised the alarm over health symptoms they experienced after the controlled burn in spite of the lies the government tried to pass off.
Before working from their hotels, some group members began experiencing sore throats, headaches, coughing, and nausea, basically the same symptoms reported by many of the town’s residents near the derailment site.
Federal officials did not disclose what caused investigators to experience such symptoms but again assured everyone that the water is safe to drink.
Two contractors from the Environmental Protection Agency out of 100 personnel working on the derailment also reported health symptoms after working in areas where the chemicals created strong odors.
The Ohio Department of Health published the results of surveys conducted at its East Palestine Health Assessment Clinic, plus door-to-door visits by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, four weeks after the chemical catastrophe permeated the town’s atmosphere.
The results showed more than half of the 168 After Chemical Exposure (ACE) community surveys reported headaches, anxiety, coughing, fatigue, and irritated skin after the derailment. However, the surveys did not indicate if the residents were exposed to harmful levels of chemicals or what caused their symptoms.
EPA officials, in conjunction with the Justice Department, announced a lawsuit on Friday against Norfolk Southern. They are seeking “penalties and injunctive relief for the unlawful discharge of pollutants, oil, and hazardous substances” under the Clean Water Act, [although they said the water is safe to drink] as well as “declaratory judgment on liability for past and future costs” related to the incident under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act.
The complaint from the EPA and Justice Department said materials released from the train cars, such as vinyl chloride, ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, Ethylhexyl acrylate, butyl acrylate, isobutylene, and benzene residue, have been “associated variously” with impaired fetal development, organ damage, cancers, and other health conditions with a sufficiently high degree of exposure.
Yet, state and federal officials have repeatedly claimed that the air and water supplies in East Palestine are safe for residents. In other words, the water is safe to drink.
So why didn't the state and federal officials wet their whistles while in town?
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