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‘Toxic stress’: Max blood lead levels in Flint children 7 times higher than CDC guidelines – doctor
Source: RT.com
"kids had blood lead levels far higher than those US health officials consider elevated and that the state knew kids were being poisoned"
Read more: https://www.rt.com/usa/327363-flint-children-blood-lead-water/
Important part. State knew people were being poisoned.
I assume they are preparing charges for the people responsible for the poisoning. They obviously knew what they were doing.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/foia-request-shows-govt-lied-about-lead-water-knowingly-poisoning-countless
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‘Toxic stress’: Max blood lead levels in Flint children 7 times higher than CDC guidelines – doctor (Original Post)
Yallow
Dec 2015
OP
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)1. Rick Snyder's "State is a soulless machine." (Gandhi)
roamer65
(36,747 posts)2. Criminal charges need to filed against Snyder.
Start at the top and work our way down.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)3. Gov. Rick Snyder (MI): You are unworthy. Resign. /nt
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)4. The Republican Party is a Fascist Party.
Sienna86
(2,150 posts)5. Criminal charges are needed.
These kids and other residents were poisoned.
Yallow
(1,926 posts)6. They Were Poisoned By Republicans
Nothing will happen....
valerief
(53,235 posts)7. And Snyder runs as free as a killer cop of an unarmed black teen. Or as free
as murderer George Zimmerman.
ffr
(22,672 posts)8. "There is no such thing as a “safe” level of lead"
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson (Cosmos season 1)
*
"Saturn is the slowest moving planet of those able to be seen by the naked eye. Perhaps this is why it was named for the God of Lead. #cosmos"
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)9. kick
chapdrum
(930 posts)10. What happens in one place
will happen everywhere.
Yet another (now murderous) example of Michigan as experimental/sacrificial zone.