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Unlike radiation, there's no safe asbestos exposure, if you're really unlucky a single strand can screw you up. On the other hand, of all people having worked a
by jojobas 1y ago
Unlike radiation, there's no safe asbestos exposure, if you're really unlucky a single strand can screw you up. On the other hand, of all people having worked at asbestos facilities with early 20th century approach to PPE only 20% developed mesothelioma and 10% died from it.
Thinking before swinging your drill will get most people safe enough not to worry about it.
- FlyingAvatar 1y agoI don't really buy the comparison. If you're really unlucky, you can get cancer from a "safe dose" of radiation. Low exposures of both things are statistically less likely to hurt you than large doses. We pick a line to call "safe", but completely safety in either case is not guaranteed.
- nkmnz 1y agoThere is a natural level of radioactivity which the body is used to compensate. Small additional doses of radioactivity can therefor be neglected. This is not true for stuff like abestos.
- jojobas 1y agoThere is even the "hormesis hypothesis" which posits that low levels above background might be beneficial for human health.
- userbinator 1y agoThere are actually naturally occurring asbestos fibers in the air, caused by weathering of asbestos-containing rocks.
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