The [Environmental Protection Agency] has set a 10-year deadline for most utilities to replace lead service lines, but omitted requirements for schools to replace the water fountains or plumbing that have lead components.
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I just said to a friend of mine this morning, “do you think we’re all weird as fuck because of all the lead fumes we were breathing in from all the cars when we were kids?”
But I guess the lead poisoning has gone on unabated regardless, so we don’t have that excuse.
Lead exposure doesn’t make you weird, it makes you dumber and increases your risk of cardiovascular problems and dementia later in life.
Air lead exposure in the US dropped off a cliff in the late 70s, people born after 1980 had very little lead exposure from the air on a population level
I was born in 1977.
It decreases inhibition as well. IIRC, that’s one reason it’s hypothesised lead exposure contributed to the crime waves, and why blood lead levels are correlated to incarceration.
And?
You must have been born before 1980 ;)
Born during Nixon, and I remember Carter.
Zamn
Why not both?