Dear Swami, what should we make of the plans by the EPA to test for asbestos on the state park beach near Zion.?
Signed,
Beach bunny
Dear Bunny,
Do you remember the various federal research projects designed to prove what anyone with an ounce of sense already knew?
Our favorite was the study that meant to prove why inmates in federal prisons seem so anxious to get out of federal prison and why they seemed to spend so much time thinking of ways to escape.
After thousands of dollars, they proved once and for all that people in federal prison don’t like to be there. Apparently, the experience is not all the fun it’s cracked up to be.
Swami has one word for this level of scientific curiosity.
DUUUUHHHH!!!!!!!
When the EPA arrives on the beach to begin its tests, the science will be aimed at showing there is asbestos there (there is…you can pick up with only minor sifting through the sand); that asbestos eventually will get into the air (it will with just a little provocation) and that if you and your kids inhale enough of it, you will contract lung cancer by the time you’re 40 (you will).
As the EPA scientists do this test, they will suggest everyone go about their normal business on this deadly piece of land – you, know, beach volleyball, building sand castles – while they take their tests. And we bet they will be wearing Hazmat moon suits all the while, because while they may be scientifically curious, they’re not wholly dumb.
It makes Swami wonder about all the local state reps (and several of the federal variety who hangpout around here) who have let this disgrace go on this long.
Swami sees all; the Swami knows all.
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