I live close to East Palestine, less than an hour in PA, and downstream as far as the air is concerned half of the time, but upstream from the water. Also, I us

I live close to East Palestine, less than an hour in PA, and downstream as far as the air is concerned half of the time, but upstream from the water. Also, I used to work right outside of East Palestine, years ago, before I switched careers and hopped around the country, coming back home recently. The amount of emotion and just ignorance surrounding this incident on social media, and especially reddit, just leaves me in contempt reaching the level of contempt I have for politicians that enabled the rail companies. Even disgusting takes of schadenfreude, that it's Ohio, that they deserved it. Yeah, it's bad. No, it's not that bad. You have people silencing others for explaining the chemical processes involved. A bunch of partisan bickering, total ignorance, and hysterical comparisons to Chernobyl or Love Canal. No, the deregulation was bi-partisan. Yeah, maybe the media doesn't focus on it as much because most are poor there, and in the surrounding area. Yes, coverage and response would probably be different if a train derailed outside of "flyover country." If only we had a semblance of journalism that could make the case, and the connections, to the recent use of legal force by the feds to prevent the rail strike with pitiful concessions, and deregulation over the last six years, and the rail companies, a shared blame. It's a bad situation, but unless there's some really nasty stuff I haven't heard about in the tankers outside of the VC, which they burned off, we're talking about acid rain. Which isn't exactly new for the area and surrounding, let's be honest. The half-life in contact with water is negligible. And after that degradation, we're talking about something with less acidity than vinegar. It's not Chernobyl. Even still, change and consequences would be nice.