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.
Yep, hundreds, right next to major water supplies, not just a wheel getting off the track, but fire, explosions, all with hazardous chemicals. Even the trucks had hazardous chemicals, all in one week. Okay.
No. About 1700/year. Do some anon research, please. And it is usually the case that fires and explosions result from hazardous chemicals. That is why they are hazardous.
No. Vast majority of derails are one wheel truck coming off, not a whole car. And not with spills. Source: railfans who listen to the radio and follow trains for fun, folks who worked on the railroads. And this "controlled burn" was way out of line with all procedure, process and law. Stop trying to give anyone involved here any sort of pass, there are no excuses and no way to minimize the damage caused here.
Oh, so you are good with a vinyl chloride explosion and poison cloud? Glad to know it. I guess we could have done that instead, and you would have had no complaint, right? All the deaths and cancers...
There was one way to minimize the damage and they took it. You don't seem to comprehend that it could have been worse---and that's what they were trying to avoid.
By the way, in my neck of the woods, we had a case of eco-terrorists using a "shunt" to derail a train (I think it was a coal shipment). So, I am not ignorant of the possibility of sabotage. But I have also seen a photo of a purported stretch of rail in Ohio and it looked like a bobby pin, so the railroad company is on the hook for the condition of the track, as well as the maintenance status of the rolling stock.