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Plenty of people have survived ‘death traps’
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Apr. 1, 2014 3:41 pm
My wife and I were born 90 years ago.
We and our children, our extended families, neighbors and their children were born and raised in homes with lead paint, coal furnace heating systems wrapped in asbestos, and lead alloy water pipes, and we played with mercury from broken thermometers.
Our schools were similar death traps. Radon gas had not been turned into a cash cow yet, so we didn't have to worry about that.
Many of the aforementioned citizens have lived healthy, happy, productive lives.
I'm wondering how did we survive these unrelenting attacks from so many sources for so long.
Maybe Chicken Little wasn't there to sound the alarm.
Robert Mitchell
Cedar Rapids
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