This immediately after my writing a screed about how conditions compound and "just happens" "bad luck" narratives of disease are unexamined cope.
Okay, this seems odd:
"The chemical makes its way into our brains through our blood, which it enters primarily when we breathe in dust particles laden with 6PPD-Q. Other avenues of exposure include crops and soil, stadium turf, working near highways or with cars, and contact with recycled tire products."
Crops and soil?
The linked source is Washington State Dept of Health, which attributes this to bioaccumulation from atmospheric deposition and runoff from roads. Of course, the very next paragraph after this disclosure is:
"Crops in Washington state have not been tested but it is possible that people could be exposed through their diet. Vegetables are a great source of nutrients and fiber and DOH recommends eating a varied diet rich in fruits and vegetables."
No instruction to wash veg, because of course you can't wash off chemicals that are in the plant. But, you know, this could give you Alzheimers, and we recommend eating it.
Car culture is cultivated cope.
Importantly, this will all only get worse as more and more vehicles go electric.
With more mass comes more tire wear.
But then, whiteness is forgetting as civic duty, so why wouldn't that be enforced by the very air we breathe and food we eat?
Also, if it's in plants, that would mean it's in plants fed to animals. Which would suggest bioaccumulation is even more severe in meat products, potentially dairy products.
Conditions compound.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304389426006102
"Mechanistically, 6PPD-Q activated NF-κB signaling in pulmonary MDMs, driving excessive inflammatory responses. Our findings confirm that 6PPD-Q significantly increases host susceptibility to viral pneumonia."
it's almost as if the regulatory regime where chemicals are given the benefit of the doubt until proven harmful was a mistake
"inert" = the dirtiest* word in the english language
*matter out of scope
Inertia is matter at a pace.
Inert, etymologically, comes from the Latin intertem, ""unskilled, incompetent; inactive, helpless, weak, sluggish; worthless. As of 1774, "indisposed or unable to move or act", with respect to a person or creature. The application to chemicals only comes in 1800.
So, not the benefit of the doubt, so much as the benefit of a weak indisposition toward action. Worthless immobility.
