• It’s certainly not overblown, feel free to look up the asbestos required to cause chronic health effects. It’s not some mystery, the numbers are out there, no wild speculation needed.

    This is such a hilarious yet literally deadly problem, it’s like anti vaxxers who see “nobody has died of smallpox in years!” And forego smallpox vaccinations for their children.

    Except this time instead of various life threatening pathogens, it’s friable mechanically toxic cancer darts.

    •  Troy   ( @troyunrau@lemmy.ca ) 
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      You’re clearly not a geologist. Asbestos refers to a whole group of minerals that have fibrous habits. There are many perfectly safe forms of asbestos that have repeated, common, and constant modern occupational exposure without issues. Serpentinite being the most common found on minesites.

      •  Umbrias   ( @Umbrias@beehaw.org ) 
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        That’s a deflection. They are all known carcinogens lol, and doesn’t meaningfully change the point.

        And no im not a geologist, but I’ve done hazard analysis on work with asbestos. I’m curious what you think a geologist has to actually say about the medical hazard of asbestos.