What's the REAL reason they removed lead from paint? Found this video and instantly thought of you guys.
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I don't buy it. Lead dust was the hazard, not paint chips. Children play on the floor a lot and put their fingers and toys in their mouth all the time.
That's what I thought too, especially when you come to sand an already painted surface ready to put on a new coat.
They took lead out of petrol because it was making people violent iirc. Crime went down when they removed it apparently.
Still, EMF shielding paint isn't the worst idea in the world.
EMF shielding paint may be very good. I don't disagree with that, I know nothing about it.
But lead paint was a real hazard.
I tend to agree. Much like asbestos.
However if we could come up with a safe EMF-shielding paint, which we may already have (I have not looked) that would be ideal imo, but your cell phone service and WIFI would surely suffer. You'd have to hard-wire all your internet devices (which I recommend anyway) and go outside to get texts and calls
*one thing about the WIFI, you could probably still use it if you only paint the exterior walls of your home, it would also keep all the WIFI inside your home so people outside wouldn't pick it up.
You can buy zinc paint for shielding purposes. It's widely used in the electronics industry. It's more effective than lead or aluminium paint.
For it to be harmful to health, children would have to do it for at least ten years, but at 7 or 8 years old they no longer put toys in their mouths, at 5 years old my children stopped putting toys in their mouths.
They can be damaged at that point, and lead is stored in the bones,it can continue to harm you for a long time after exposure.
Lead paint was removed from the market in the 70's long before 5 g was thought of. Scientists and even govt workers were honest at that time.
Is that the same government that mandated putting fluoride in the water because they care about our teeth so much?
I wouldn't bet on it. Who killed Kennedy? The Vietnam war. The Franklin cover-up. Even further back was the whole Jeckyl Island debacle (1913) I'd be careful assuming things were better in the 'good old days.'
The top people were plenty evil, but the lower level people were still OK. Society was much different then.