Dave Fawthrop wrote:
On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:33:17 GMT, dave wrote:
| On 03 Oct 2005 00:15:41 GMT, (Andrew Gabriel)
| wrote:

| | Do LL lamps (as sold in many diy stores) contain Hg vapour? If so, how should
| | they be properly disposed of?
| |
| | If you mean compact fluorescents, then yes.
| |
| | Same question of fluorescent lamps - or is there some other element/risk with
| | them?
| |
| | Yes.
| |
| | If you are a business unit chucking out sizable quantities,
| | there are various hazardous waste schemes. For a home, the
| | quantites of mercury are too small for anyone to worry about
| | it yet. There's more mercury in the fillings in your teeth
| | (3g on average goes up the crematorium chimney per person)
| | than the amount you will chuck out in fluorescent lamps.
|
| And *considerably* less than the mercury clinical thermometer in my First
| Aid cupboard. This Health and Safety obsession is IMO going mad :-(
|
| And considerably less than that in a Hg switch I have. But that's kind of
| irrelevant isn't it. Can't see what mad about trying to avoid a poison risk. Ok
| it's not exactly plutonium I know. "Mad" and "Hg" in the same sentence is very
| appropriate

So all according to you all risks are to be avoided at *any* cost. So you
do not travel on the roads to avoid the risk of being one of the ten people
who die in traffic accidents each day in the UK.


Maybe I understand it... lets see what you think.

When people are facing a big threat they dont think they have any
control over, they yearn for control over danger, and act this out on
any adnger they can control. At the same time they do _not_ want to
think about the real big danger, and denial rules in that area.

How this applies here is this: Our big danger is that 50% of us will
die from haert disease or cancer. Thats a huge risk, one that shows all
the part p malarkey for what it is.

Around 50% of this mass death is easily preventable, but nanny isnt
preventing it, and the general population isnt doing anything to save
their collective asses either. Theyre walking right into mass death
because theyre in denial. Theyre controlling the trivia because of the
urge to control the present danger, plus the fact that they really dont
want to think about it, and that not looking leads to acting on trivia
while ignoring the real issue, lik rearranging the deck chairs on the
titanic.

And because people refuse to face it, they dont notce that 50% of that
50% death rate is really not hard to prevent.

Imagine if all these daft laws about not being able to sell veg in
pounds and ounces, part p and so on were replaced by an equally funded
effort to do soething about our real killer. The difference in death
rate would be enormous. The saving in misery would be gargantuan.

But people dont want to look at this because it scares them, they see
no solution, so lets pretend its a non issue and worry solely about
silly trivia.

When it comes to safety this society is completely missing the boat.


NT