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How the hell does an elder millelianal get lead?
Leaded gasoline wasn't fully phased out in the US until 1996, not sure about other countries. The millennial age bracket starts somewhere around the birth year 1982.
Fun fact: it's still used in piston aircraft.
Edit: sorry, that's not very fun.
NASCAR didn't switch to unleaded gasoline until 2007, and test scores went up in the areas surrounding their racetracks in the following years.
Apparently you can still buy leaded race fuels in the US today, wtf? Ban that shit. I was watching a video yesterday of someone why brought their time-attack racecar to Australia and they had to retune it for unleaded because leaded is banned there. I was blown away they were using leaded fuel in the first place.
1996? The USA is Liberia with money
Yeah look into Liberian history and you’ll understand why
This made me reconsider the foundations of the high crime rates in the neighborhoods nearest the very busy small plane airport in my home town.
Lead paint was still on the stuff we grew up in. Lead in the plumbing used in our schools, too.
Oh it definitely happens. I'm a young millennial and I have a friend my age who deals with mental issues because he ate lead paint leftover in their old house as a child. Lead was so prevalent at one point that getting rid of it all isn't as simple as flipping a switch.
Edit: [wasn't -> isn't] There does not in fact exist a switch that we can now flip to remove lead. Thanks @[email protected].
Is there now a switch to flip for this?
Lmao, unfortunately not. Thanks for catching the typo.
isn't**
While it wasn't commonplace in gas in the early 80s, it was still prevalent on a lot of long lasting products, and of course, paint.
I was in my early teens in the 90s when leaded gas was finally banned in the US. Furthermore, lead doesn't degrade, only slowly disperse. People born in the early 80s still got a hefty dose of lead. Yay us.
At least we dodged asbestos insulation, and only have to deal with it in old construction when we tear down the walls.
Eat a paint chip from any house built before 1978
This sounds like a TikTok challenge.