zinfamous
No Lifer
- Jul 12, 2006
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It can be quite a serious issue. A significant number of people that were about 10 years ahead of me in my career working with the Navy on subs in shipyards being overhauled, or deployed have DIED of mesothelioma. One was the person I took over the site at Bangor, WA. Asbestos control became a serious issue right about the time I started. Trident subs only have asbestos in limited areas if at all. Poseidon class an older boats, had asbestos all over the place. The Groton office used to be next to the "Sail shop" which actually did all of the lagging. People used to have to brush off of their desks in the morning. Fortunately, I missed all of that wonderfulness.
it reminds me of how oil and auto and materials industry lobbied hard in the 70s to fight lead remediation and catalytic converters and limiting the exposure of all of the horrible things we absolutely knew about lead. conservative corporate knob-jobbers rallied their conservative voters to fight the movement to remove lead from the environment, because they knew that with a predonerance of lead toxicity affecting their voters the most, they were the most malleable to fight for their own self-destriuction. It's a strategy that has worked forever. In a way conservatives really are victims, but it's their own stupidity and unquestioning willingness to be gaslit into voting for their own deaths above anything else.
They haven't changed at all. lol, you still hear them complain about how "great things were!" when the auto industry wasn't regulated and Americans could build the shit-ass, inefficient, baby-murdering cars that they desired. To this day they still complain about it.
