re: #57 Citizen K

So Doug Ford apparently won?

This pretty much puts the right wing fever wave as even more fucking successful as ever and spreading non-stop at this point, doesn’t it? There’s literally no fucking stopping it anymore, huh.

Between this, the apparent strangling of the ACA by the DoJ, and the EPA deciding that it’s just fucking hunky dory with asbestos now after Trump called asbestos poisoning a ‘mob conspiracy’….fuck it. I should have stayed in fucking bed. I’m not even sure November is going to fix anything at this point.

I know for an absolute, demonstrable fact that asbestos manufacturers have known since the 1930’s that asbestos is a hideously dangerous thing. Lethal in all cases; some die faster than others, but EVERYBODY who breathes it in dies from it.

In the 1930’s, the Asbestos Manufacturers Council commissioned medical studies about it; they deliberately suppressed publication of those studies. They had Board meetings where they discussed that replacing workers was cheaper than giving them breathing masks and other protective gear.

They kept meticulous records of all of this. The Sumner-Simpson Documents only became public in the late 1970’s/early 1980’s. Had Sumner and Simpson still been alive, they’d have been on the hook for more than 100,000 murders. Instead, their companies and all the other companies have spent the last 40 years paying off civil suits.