Our governments know the answer to that but have not shared the information publicly. Certain restrictions are expected such as not listing specific residents' names alongside specific disorders or diseases. In Grassy Narrows, Ontario special health procedures are in place for known victims of mercury poisoning. And this is public information without listing individual sufferers' by name. The same could and should occur here in Elmira for our Old Order Mennonite community. My understanding is that there are 22 families with farms backing on to the Creek between the Uniroyal/Lanxess property and the downstream Grand River.
There are very specific health symptoms of dioxin poisoning in human beings which are not shared with the multitude of other possible human disorders and diseases. Locations such as Vietnam have developed extensive medical knowledge out of necessity courtesy of the American spraying of civilians, their fields and their homes with Agent Orange a mixture of 2,4-d and 2,4,5-T containing residues of dioxin (2,3,7,8 TCDD). Similarly while DDT can exacerbate other more common conditions such as diabetes, DDT also has some more symptoms specific unto itself.
Our governments and corporations pick on minorities whether they be indigenous communities especially in the north or religious minorities such as the Old Order Mennonites. If both communities were well integrated white folk our governments would be less capable of throwing them to the wolves while piously claiming support for pollution remediation while doing the bare minimum possible.
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