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minus-squareColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoExcept eating paint chips with lead made a lot of kids dumb. Lead based paint held up awesome, but it was banned due to injection. Not inhalation. Even now, 40+ years later it’s still the leading cause of lead poisoning in children.
minus-squareDrRatso@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoI mean… we’re talking about mercury here, not lead.
minus-squareColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoOh, fuck me. Lol. I commented last night and then responded back today and in between my mind totally flipped to thinking it was about lead.
Except eating paint chips with lead made a lot of kids dumb. Lead based paint held up awesome, but it was banned due to injection. Not inhalation. Even now, 40+ years later it’s still the leading cause of lead poisoning in children.
I mean… we’re talking about mercury here, not lead.
Oh, fuck me. Lol. I commented last night and then responded back today and in between my mind totally flipped to thinking it was about lead.