Ohio Train Disaster Genocide
🤢 These people are sick! 🤮
Padraig Martin @PadraigMartin
· East Palestine, Ohio Train Disaster in Numbers
- 50 rail cars derailed on 3 February
- 11 rail cars carried hazardous materials
- 5 rail cars released Vinyl Chloride, a flammable, colorless liquified gas that causes liver, brain, and lung cancer
- 28° Celcius / 82° Fahrenheit is required for Vinyl Chloride to become slightly water soluable
- 1 waterway was directly impacted - the Leslie Run. It feeds the Little Beaver Creek, a tributary to the Ohio River.
- 5 Million Americans get water from the Ohio River.
- 74 Million Americans get water from the various tributaries and outlets of the Ohio River, which feeds the Mississippi River
- 1 Billion+ animals of varying types - livestock and wildlife - depend on these waterways for life
- None of the waterways have ever hit a sustained 82°F in human history
- 3500 fish and aquatic animals have died in the Leslie Run in the past week
- Almost all small livestock have died in East Palestine since Friday, 10 February, especially poultry
- 4800 residents call East Palestine home
- 94% are White
- 81% of the 74 Million Americans that depend on the Ohio River and associated waterways, including the Mississippi for water for themselves and/or their livestock are White
- Zero FEMA officials have arrived to East Palestine as of 15 February
This was not an accident. This is genocide.
I get that this is an awful catastrophe. But I've seen several posts here over the past few days outlining how many millions of people will be affected by the pollution in the water. I get that the clouds of smoke will be blown downwind, and potential precipitation might cause it to fall into possible lakes and streams.
However, very few people get their drinking water from rivers or streams. Most people get their drinking water from reservoirs, or wells. A reservoir has a dam at its outlet. Polluted water won't travel upstream, so all these predictions of the water affecting tributaries of the Ohio River are simply not correct. In order for groundwater to sink to the depth of wells, or aquifers, it percolates through sand and sediments allowing for purification, and may require years...if possible at all.
This is bad, and heads need to roll. But these dire predictions claiming millions of people and billions of animals...let's keep all this real. No need to terrify people more than they need to be.