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HockeyMusings t1_j8enalc wrote

Reply to comment by ghostofhogan in Ohio toxic air in DMV? by ghostofhogan

The controlled release was a week ago. Like 4 Chinese balloons have come and gone since then.

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JustHereForCookies17 t1_j8i567g wrote

How many Scaramucci's are we talking about?

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norakb123 t1_j8l0479 wrote

Everything should be measured in Scaramuccis. (Edit: everything time-based & I accept Trusses if you are international.)

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ghostofhogan OP t1_j8enffy wrote

Yeah, and the controlled release will burn much longer and will likely do far more damage than any countless number of Chinese balloons.

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HockeyMusings t1_j8eniql wrote

The controlled release burned until Wednesday. The fire is out.

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LarryKingBabyHole t1_j8epj6w wrote

To be fair... fire leads to smoke and particle dissemination which outlasts the fire itself.

If a chemical factory is dumping waste in a river, does the waste just disappear when the dumping stops?

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IndependentYam3227 t1_j8epzm1 wrote

Apparently the toxic cloud is going to disappear over Ohio, and reappear just outside the Beltway.

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HockeyMusings t1_j8epzh9 wrote

The fire ended a week ago. It has come and gone.

The amount of chemical exposure isn’t even a blip relative to the background deluge we willingly and/or unknowingly expose ourselves on a daily basis.

Even at that, our risk decreases exponentially with our distance from the site.

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not_a_gumby t1_j8eopl5 wrote

the balloons are just a distraction from the train chemical spill. There's a pretty obvious news blackout on the chemical burn because it undercuts Biden's anti-union stance which almost directly led to this exact situation.

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