{"id":101909,"date":"2021-03-23T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=101909"},"modified":"2021-03-24T13:43:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T18:43:54","slug":"get-the-lead-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=101909","title":{"rendered":"Get the Lead Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- RSR AD 1 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"7759247395\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=101909\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=101909\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-101910 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2016_2-6-16_flintwater_54_1200-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2016_2-6-16_flintwater_54_1200-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2016_2-6-16_flintwater_54_1200-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2016_2-6-16_flintwater_54_1200-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2016_2-6-16_flintwater_54_1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Bethany \u201cBST2\u201d Armstrong<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nearly seven years ago, Flint Michigan switched it\u2019s water supply to the Flint River in an effort to save money. The Flint River that has long been the depository of industrial waste and raw sewage, has been rumored to have caught fire \u2013 twice -, is highly corrosive, was tied to an outbreak of Legionnaires\u2019 disease which killed 12, had elevated total trihalomethanes (cancer causing chemicals from over chlorinating water) \u2026 all pumped through lead pipes. 9000 children drinking and bathing in lead-poisoned toxic water for 18 months. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The city of Flint passed an ordinance in 1897 that required all connections to water mains be made with lead. That sounds like a long time ago, but the toxicity of lead was first documented around 2000 BC by Dioscerides who wrote \u201cLead makes the mind give way.\u201d Benjamin Franklin and Charles Dickens wrote about professions that worked with lead and the common illnesses associated with them including \u201ccolic\u201d \u201cdangles\u201d (wrist drop) and brain damage.<\/p>\n<p>There is no safe level of lead in water. Lead is lethal in ways you might not expect. Not only does it decrease IQ and increase impulsivity, it can also lead to madness and death. It increases the likelihood of violent criminal behavior and there are theories that lead exposure contributed the rise in serial killers in the 1970\u2019s and 1980\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Findings indicate that exposure to lead leads to much higher murder rates 20 years later. In another 13-14 years-ish; it\u2019ll be time to pay the piper. We will be paying for Flint\u2019s crimes against humanity with increases in disabilities, violent crimes, perpetuated poverty\u2026 all to save a few bucks.<\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;2&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bethany \u201cBST2\u201d Armstrong Nearly seven years ago, Flint Michigan switched it\u2019s water supply to the Flint River in an effort to save money. The Flint River that has long been the depository of industrial waste and raw sewage, has been rumored to have caught fire \u2013 twice -, is highly corrosive, was tied to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[25985],"class_list":["post-101909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-get-the-lead-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101909"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}