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PamelaDrew's avatar

Wrong. The problem wasn't spread of illness it was immunity for care homes from Cuomo and COVID patients stuffed in to increase death rates. New Yorkers are more active as a function of life with subway stairs and dragging all our purchases as opposed to folks who drive everywhere. NYC is no dirtier or germier than any mall in the hinterlands.

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

I would agree with the exercise, but I wonder how healthy it is to exercise with all that bad air and fumes around? From all big cities I have been, one of the only that felt manageable was Denver CO. Benzene is a know carcinogene, and cities abound with it. Only look at LA covered in clouds of smog.

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NYC is an ocean front island & our air is a lot cleaner than herbicide soaked agricultural areas. That's not to say the Hampton's don't breathe purer air than we do but car fumes are far from the most toxic pollution we are exposed to. Dubbya Bush shut down EPA TRI data collection in 2002 but impossible to believe it's because things have gotten better. In 2020 UC shut down the scorecard database.

"Over 4 billion pounds of toxic chemicals are released by industry into the nation's environment each year, including 72 million pounds of recognized carcinogens." Most widely used chemicals lack basic testing to identify harm these are just the few recognized, typically as a result of lawsuits.

https://web.archive.org/web/20101230141816/http://scorecard.goodguide.com/env-releases/us-map.tcl

"If an industrial chemical is allowed by law to be released into the environment, most people assume that it must have been tested and evaluated for its potential risks. Unfortunately, this is simply not true. Keeping chemical hazards under control requires information about what kinds of hazards each chemical poses. If the basic tests to check on a chemical's toxicity haven't been conducted, or if the results aren't publicly available, current laws tend to treat that chemical as if it were perfectly safe."

https://web.archive.org/web/20120917041002/http://scorecard.goodguide.com/chemical-profiles/chems-profile-descriptions.tcl#safety_assessmenthttps://web.archive.org/web/20120917041002/http://scorecard.goodguide.com/chemical-profiles/chems-profile-descriptions.tcl#safety_assessment

Factory farm %$#@ https://web.archive.org/web/20101231203401/http://scorecard.goodguide.com/env-releases/aw/

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