Three men who have worked as Republican political operatives agreed to pay more than $50,000 in restitution and penalties in Ohio for their roles in operating a phony charity that collected cash purportedly to help victims of the East Palestine train derailment.
How are those folks doing? Haven’t heard anything since the incident. Any surging cases of disease?
We really won’t know if there’s long term health effects for decades.
Not really. Unless you drank straight from the river after derailment or stayed during cleanup, there is no way anyone will have problems because of it. Unlike radiation, chemicals, after being heavily diluted, become harmless within days.
It’s like if you poured out a bottle of bleach in your garden. You won’t worry about the tomatoes becoming poisonous when you pick them the next year.
https://ema.ohio.gov/media-publications/news/080323-east-palestine-update
The state government of Ohio publishes update on the situation. But I’d have to agree with the other replier, we likely won’t know the true human cost for decades. People are still negatively impacted by the Chernobyl explosion.