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As you know, the water in Flint is emergency-level nasty.
I don't have anything special to say about it. Obviously I’m against poisonous water and the bureaucratic (and possibly corrupt) incompetence that led to it. I’ve stayed out of the political batshit-slinging contest currently raging over it, because said contest just makes it impossible to get a straight story on what actually happened and who’s to blame for it.
Here’s a couple of stories that have filtered through the muck (so to speak) that are helpful primers to the situation in Flint.
1. This post from FiveThirtyEight is a great breakdown of what happened and when.
2. This article in The Guardian claims that yr probably going to see more stories like this, at least in major US cities east of the Mississippi River, because Flint isn’t the only city using questionable methods to test its water quality.
3. This post from Mic.com is worth reading as it asks the people from Flint what they think about this. Note that not all of them are impressed with Michael Moore’s theory that the Flint water crisis is a form of ethnic cleansing.
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Don’t drink the water,
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I don't have anything special to say about it. Obviously I’m against poisonous water and the bureaucratic (and possibly corrupt) incompetence that led to it. I’ve stayed out of the political batshit-slinging contest currently raging over it, because said contest just makes it impossible to get a straight story on what actually happened and who’s to blame for it.
Here’s a couple of stories that have filtered through the muck (so to speak) that are helpful primers to the situation in Flint.
1. This post from FiveThirtyEight is a great breakdown of what happened and when.
2. This article in The Guardian claims that yr probably going to see more stories like this, at least in major US cities east of the Mississippi River, because Flint isn’t the only city using questionable methods to test its water quality.
3. This post from Mic.com is worth reading as it asks the people from Flint what they think about this. Note that not all of them are impressed with Michael Moore’s theory that the Flint water crisis is a form of ethnic cleansing.
Developing …
Don’t drink the water,
This is dF
