May we please stop stigmatizing mental health care in this country with threads in which DUers

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30. It's out of compasion

It's out of compassion that some of us view RWNJs in the light of mentally unbalanced. And it's not a stretch to say that, simply because we've all been affected by Pb lead poisoning. That's fact. Your parents, their parents and perhaps their parents parents have all been exposed to elevated levels of lead poisoning due to tetra-ethyl lead (TEL) enhanced gasoline, which was available worldwide from the early 1920s through to about the mid-1980s and is in limited use to this day in global civil aviation. Which means we're still breathing in lead aerosols to this day.

In case anyone is wondering, there is no cure for lead poisoning and NO level of lead exposure is consider safe. IIRC, worldwide the average person measures 4 points lower on the IQ scale than they would otherwise, simply due to the level of lead in their blood and bones. Babies are exposed prior to birth if their mother's are deficient of calcium. Lead stored in the mother's bones is transferred to the baby, because the body doesn't know that lead isn't calcium.

So it's out of compassion that some of us feel sorry for people who go out of their way to unintentionally heighten their exposure to lead. People like private civil aviation pilots, people at indoor firing ranges, and people that have owned classic cars that run on TEL gasoline, many of who are more likely to vote for republicans than democrats. Coincidence?