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Wouldn’t it have been easier to just install an RO filtration system on your drinking water source at the sink? Then you get the benefits of RO drinking water

Wouldn’t it have been easier to just install an RO filtration system on your drinking water source at the sink? Then you get the benefits of RO drinking water and the cost is minuscule. You don’t drink from the toilets and showers and all that.

bobmcnamara 2y ago
Only about a 20dB improvement for something that has a zero safe exposure level.
- getfroggie 2y ago
  I find the zero safe level needlessly shock oriented. Many things have no safe value but a low level is less likely to play a major role in a life than another risk.. Cars, guns, opioids, suicide, cancer, maybe the last two have a minor lead influence, mostly outweighed by alcohol.
  - fredgrott 2y ago
    you do realize that other things have a no safe value...opioids no doctor can predict which dose of opioid produces the addiction...opioids first use was for pain medication for those with terminal diseases
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- fsckboy 2y ago
  it's alarmism to say zero safe exposure. For example, you should limit your tuna per week, but you don't need to stop eating tuna. The problem with heavy metals is that they're cumulative, but it's also impossible to avoid them completely, so minimization is the strategy. -20db is 1/100th which is a dramatic improvement, at least for that threat source.
  - rpnx 2y ago
    Lead is toxic at any dose. This means is damages your neurons in any amount. Contrast to say, copper, which doesn't start causing damage until levels exceed a certain tolerable threshold. While lead is toxic at any amount, low amounts of lead cause low amounts of damage. It doesn't change the fact that the ideal exposure is 0 and over 99% of people have about 5 to 10 times the bond lead levels found in remains of our ancestors, and that even relatively low lead exposure levels from breathing lead in the air from just air pollution are linked to dramatically reduced IQ.
    - fsckboy 2y ago
      >99% of people have about 5 to 10 times the bond lead levels found in remains of our ancestors 99% of people live better lives than all of our ancestors, in every dimension. if you're telling me it's because of lead, then lead is a good thing.
      - hollerith 2y ago
        Silly.
        fsckboy 2y ago
        it's silly hubris on your part to claim that you know that tetraethyl lead in gasoline was not a net positive for civilization: cheap gas in high compression cars leading to productivity gains? Could things have been better? you, of all people, have no idea.
  - rpnx 2y ago
    To be clear, everyone alive today is still on average multiple iq points dumber than they would have been had we not burned tetraethyl lead 50 years ago, even though it has been banned for quite a while. Lead is THAT toxic.
    - JamesBarney 2y ago
iluvcommunism 2y ago
I support RO water filters. But consider not cooking with that water either. I’d just bite the bullet and eliminate the lead.
- kccqzy 2y ago
  When you have an RO water filter (like I do), you just use that for cooking.
laluser 2y ago
I have a young toddler so would have needed multiple filters throughout the house. They tend to like to drink from the bath and my anxiety can’t handle that.

bobmcnamara 2y ago

Only about a 20dB improvement for something that has a zero safe exposure level.

getfroggie 2y ago
I find the zero safe level needlessly shock oriented. Many things have no safe value but a low level is less likely to play a major role in a life than another risk.. Cars, guns, opioids, suicide, cancer, maybe the last two have a minor lead influence, mostly outweighed by alcohol.
- fredgrott 2y ago
  you do realize that other things have a no safe value...opioids no doctor can predict which dose of opioid produces the addiction...opioids first use was for pain medication for those with terminal diseases
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fsckboy 2y ago
it's alarmism to say zero safe exposure. For example, you should limit your tuna per week, but you don't need to stop eating tuna. The problem with heavy metals is that they're cumulative, but it's also impossible to avoid them completely, so minimization is the strategy. -20db is 1/100th which is a dramatic improvement, at least for that threat source.
- rpnx 2y ago
  Lead is toxic at any dose. This means is damages your neurons in any amount. Contrast to say, copper, which doesn't start causing damage until levels exceed a certain tolerable threshold. While lead is toxic at any amount, low amounts of lead cause low amounts of damage. It doesn't change the fact that the ideal exposure is 0 and over 99% of people have about 5 to 10 times the bond lead levels found in remains of our ancestors, and that even relatively low lead exposure levels from breathing lead in the air from just air pollution are linked to dramatically reduced IQ.
  - fsckboy 2y ago
    >99% of people have about 5 to 10 times the bond lead levels found in remains of our ancestors 99% of people live better lives than all of our ancestors, in every dimension. if you're telling me it's because of lead, then lead is a good thing.
    - hollerith 2y ago
      Silly.
      - fsckboy 2y ago
        it's silly hubris on your part to claim that you know that tetraethyl lead in gasoline was not a net positive for civilization: cheap gas in high compression cars leading to productivity gains? Could things have been better? you, of all people, have no idea.
- rpnx 2y ago
  To be clear, everyone alive today is still on average multiple iq points dumber than they would have been had we not burned tetraethyl lead 50 years ago, even though it has been banned for quite a while. Lead is THAT toxic.
  - JamesBarney 2y ago

iluvcommunism 2y ago

I support RO water filters. But consider not cooking with that water either. I’d just bite the bullet and eliminate the lead.

kccqzy 2y ago
When you have an RO water filter (like I do), you just use that for cooking.

laluser 2y ago

I have a young toddler so would have needed multiple filters throughout the house. They tend to like to drink from the bath and my anxiety can’t handle that.