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Where these quotes are from? FWIW, the parent article's question is "why despite of lead being banned for 30+ years we're still getting cases of lead poisoning

• ZeroGravitas 5y ago
  Just a random article on the history, I felt there was a weird vibe of "well kids are being made ill by this lead that's everywhere for unknown reasons" as if it was some natural and unavoidable tragedy, rather than a century long conspiracy in plain sight, driven by greed that got us here. Paint manufacturers were talking publicly about it in 1904. There's an American amazed at how good the US response to this threat is vs the UK, possibly overlooking that the UK government and industry basically banned it 15 years earlier than the US, massively reducing the scope of the problem. The Doctor that in America is held as being responsible for proving there was an issue only starting looking into it years after that change in the UK had happened, decades after attempts at legislation started. I feel there's an important point there that's worth thinking about.