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You can't just wash that asbestos right out of your bed

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  1. You see, it tangles in with other fibers and breaks off
    into the air gradually! It even stays intertwined with your
    body hair. Think of that next time you lean on a plaster wall.
    Yes, that quaint "plaster and lathe" you thought was superior
    to sheetrock is 30% asbestos if it was made or patched
    between 1920 and 1980! Ah, the glories of the affectation of
    being urban vermin! And you like playing with the bottom of
    your shoes while you talk on the phone at work? Just after you
    walked all over that white construction debris on the sidwalk?
    You got it, dude! 30% asbestos! All over your belongings so
    you can pass it on to your grandchildren as well!
    Hey, isn't historic preservation just grand! Let's preserve
    all the toxic stuff to pas son to our grandchildren so we can
    say we so nobly resisted urban "sprawl"! Don't tear those toxic
    antiquities down! We want to keep on breathing them!
    Isn't urban affectation, grand! But then again, if you're
    reading this, you don't know, because urban luddites
    hate the internet because it keeps them from experiencing
    the stimulation of urban cockaroach life!
    And speaking of cockaroaches and pidgeons and rodents,
    your smaller fellow urban vermin (that you inevitably eat),
    they make nesting material from asbestos and spread it all over.
    Yes, you do eat them - they are everywhere in your
    beloved sprawl-less city! And when your office moved, did you see
    the debris-strwen sidewalk they parked your files on?

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    They used to put asbestos in: bakelite, plaster of Paris,
    sheetrock joints, ceiling "sand" paint, foot-callous pumice,
    wall shingles, floor tiles, pipe insulation, skyscraper ceiling
    insulation, floortile (black-tar-like) "mastic" (even under
    ceramic bath tiles), and roofing shingles. They spread it with
    "don't ask, don't tell" electricians and dust-covered
    workers on your busses and dumpster leftovers on your sidewalk.

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  2. StampOutDumbPosters said:

    In article <[email hidden]>,

    Marc Lermin said:

    You see, it tangles in with other fibers and breaks
    off


    SNIP!

    Do you personally know anyone who has an asbestos
    related problem? Do you even know anyone who knows
    anyone who has had an asbestos problem? I bet not.

    The asbestos issue is one of the most over-hyped
    non-issues of the past century. Tell me what the
    statistics are on the number of people dying every
    year from asbestos problems.

    This is a pretty lousy criteria for evaluating this
    problem. I used to work on ships where asbestos was
    treated pretty cavalierly. Occasionally would walk past
    rooms where there was a lot of dust in the air.

    When I left the shipyard, they gave me a breath
    capacity test, and a special X-ray and sent me a paper
    declaring my lungs to be asbestos free at the time I
    left. I'm lucky that nothing has happened to me so far,
    but a friend who retired from there and who did work in
    those kind of environments for years until he was
    promoted, is developing some asthma problems recently.
    Unfortunately, his loyalty prevents him from claiming
    any kind of worker compensation from the shipyard.

    --alvin

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