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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone remember the person who constantly posted about airplane noise on the Real Estate forum?  Maybe they are represented in those statistics.[/quote]

Maybe you should reread that forum or did the brain damage from the jet fuel micro particles get to you already?[/quote]

Do you think the particles fall straight down? I'm assuming those particles travel long distances before hitting the ground.[/quote]

I don’t think anything. I read the science and it says these particles are so dangerous because they are so tiny and pushed down by the forces that have to do with how the jets fly straight into your lungs and organs; the issue is that they are too tiny and pushed down too fast to be addressable in any meaningful way. The articles say you are better off standing in the middle of a highway the whole day and breathing the fumes than living under a flight path.

It’s all laid out if you search for it, including yes on this website. I honestly don’t understand the gaslighting and vitriol of the people who claim the planes aren’t flying over these few neighborhoods in DC low and every minute or so. I understand that your personal risk tolerance is way higher and your personal comfort bar too; but don’t get why you feel the need to so aggressively call everyone else crazy etc? I mean these people protesting the flight paths are objectively right.

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How is it that people can work for years, even decades, on the ramps at airports, loading baggage, working on aircraft, directing planes around, etc, and be MUCH more exposed to jet exhaust than people like you - yet we never seem to hear about them suffering any kind of the maladies that you describe from these “articles” you (didn’t) cite.

If jet exhaust were as dangerous as you suggest, wouldn’t tens of thousands of airport workers be dying every year? They’re getting many orders of magnitude more exposure than you are with them flying 1,000+ feet overhead. They’re right next to the engines. By your risk projections, they should be dead within weeks, if not days.

How do you explain that they’re able to survive somehow after being exposed to levels of pollution [i]millions[/i] of times higher than that which you claim causes life threatening health complications?

Seems like there’s only two possible explanations:

1) airport workers are super-humans, or perhaps they simply don’t breathe. Or maybe it’s witchcraft?

2) you and your articles are vastly exaggerating the dangers, and you have zero credibility because of that.

Which is it, do you suppose? [/quote]

What are you talking about? There are studies and union fights galore about their health and increased incidence of cancer.[/quote]

Except thousands of them aren’t dying each year. Which is what we’d be experiencing if the claims of the PP were true.

Is there a long term health hazard to working around running jet engines for years or decades? Probably. I’m sure there is. You’re breathing jet exhaust 8-10 hours a day, 5 days a week, probably ~50 weeks a year. I’m sure that has some negative health affects.

But it’s offensive that people who DON’T work next to running jet engines 40 hours a week and merely live near an airport have the gall to claim that they are more at-risk than the people who work next to planes all day.

It’s disgusting privilege on display. [/quote]

They wear PPE. They also don’t stand under planes while they are on ascent and descent. When did you last see a bunch of families running on the piste behind the jet? I have no idea what your point is.[/quote]

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