When trusting “the science” goes wrong...

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/9-11-anniversary/9-11-first-responders-begin-feel-attack-s-long-term-n908306

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9/11 first responders begin to feel attack's long-term health effects
“I do remember thinking that this is probably going to kill me,” one firefighter said.

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Elizabeth Wilson, a former city bus driver who was assigned to work with other transit workers at ground zero after the attack, is one of them. Now 59, she retired two years ago. She has nodules, a potentially precancerous type of growth, in her lungs; asthma; acid reflux; and other conditions that have been certified as having been caused by the 9/11 dust. Like so many people living and working at ground zero, Wilson never wore a face mask. “It was like a cloud,” Wilson said. “You couldn’t see your hand in front of you, it was so bad.” Only about half of those assigned to work in the area wore protective gear, and even fewer of the people living and working nearby did.

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Says “We were supposed to have been fitted for respirators at the time,” Wilson told NBC News. But Christine Todd Whitman, then the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, erroneously assured people that the air was safe to breathe. “I never got a mask after that,” Wilson said.

Whitman has since said she regrets having said that. Wilson said her clothes were covered in so much dust during the first days and weeks that she would stuff them into yard waste bags and throw them out rather than trying to wash them

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Recently the AAP released a statement that there is no evidence that young children wearing mask will negatively impact their development...

The head of the EPA would have been justified then using the same flawed logic (no studies = no concern)

Sadly, many regrets yet to come