It’s “great if you haven’t got sick, but be kind because there’s some people that have,” Sam Chirico relates. A year after the huge toxic train derailment nuked East Palestine, Ohio, she’s “still experiencing a rash that her doctors call chemical dermatitis.” Other residents of the community, and into neighboring Beaver County, Pennsylvania, continue to “report respiratory problems, rashes or headaches.” Among numerous even worse complaints the press doesn’t report.
Sick of the chemicals
A full year after a “Norfolk Southern train derailed and spilled a cocktail of hazardous chemicals that caught fire,” residents are still sick. Federal officials keep trying hard to close the cases and “move on” but the locals are well aware that they can expect all sorts of nasty health complications for years and years to come.
What should be a perfect opportunity to study the results of toxic exposure is being shuffled into bureaucratic obscurity.
“Daily life,” Politico writes, “largely returned to normal for most of the nearly 5,000 residents of East Palestine, Ohio.” Most, but not all. The rest got sick and they’re getting worse.
🚨 It’s officially been one year since the government made the decision to blow up a train carrying HIGHLY TOXIC materials in East Palestine, Ohio
It’s been a year FULL of government coverups, lies and ineptitude.
Residents STILL don’t trust their tap water, the air they… pic.twitter.com/gNHCBIlajZ
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 4, 2024
Federal officials don’t want to hear that because they’ve been totally denying that can even happen, for decades. “Worries and fears are always there,” the liberal outlet downplays. Actual and debilitating symptoms are there too.
Many of the residents “believe the EPA’s findings that their air and water are safe.” With all the federal cleanup cash flowing though their economy it’s hard to stay mad.
They’re “ready to move on and take advantage of all the money the railroad and governments are investing in the area.” Village Council member Linda May is one of those. “We’re going to move forward with our lives. It’s just harder for some residents to do that.” The ones who got sick.
Years and extensive research
Experts admit that “it will likely take years and extensive research to understand the derailment’s health implications.” They also point out that “it’s simply not possible to say yet how many cancers or chronic respiratory conditions might develop down the road.” Cancer and chronic respiratory conditions are nothing, Toxicant Induced Loss of Tolerance patients scoff.
They call themselves “canaries” and they know what “sick” really means, when caused by exposure to chemicals. Cancer isn’t even the tiniest tip of the iceberg compared to what East Palestine residents can really expect. The condition of each and every inhabitant claiming direct exposure to the toxins should be tracked for the rest of their life. The Department of Health and Human Services would prefer to ignore the whole mess.
Whether they like it or not, half the town has found themselves to be guinea pigs for toxic exposure effects. The best thing the federal government can do is put the entire town under a microscope. That way, they could reduce and relieve the suffering of millions similarly sick and afflicted. Stephen Paddock was affected by chemical sensitivity, before he shot up Las Vegas and killed himself. The FBI knows that but doesn’t want you to know that.
What is TILT? Dr. Miller explains Toxicant-induced Loss of Tolerance here: http://t.co/Vqui34FOs3 pic.twitter.com/p8y4ambOk9
— Claudia S. Miller (@DrClaudiaMiller) July 10, 2015
One of the biggest challenges facing canaries is the total embargo on chemical sensitivity research. Joe Biden is well aware of what can happen. He lost his son to cancer, specifically linked to military burn pits.
Dr. Beatrice Golomb has been working on the problem. She’s “already seen people with symptoms similar to health problems military veterans developed after working around toxic burn pits during the Gulf War.” She also is frustrated with the lack of hard science on the subject. It’s also tough to work around the government censorship.
“It’s hard to predict what might develop in East Palestine because there isn’t good research on the chemicals that spilled.” People are getting sick right and left but “we don’t have good data on the individual chemicals and their human impact, and we certainly don’t have good data on the combined impact.“