08-10-2018, 06:36 AM
Asbestos could be added to two commonly used products, adhesives and sealants in the near future and then sold in Hawaii. These substances are often applied with a tube, and a caulking gun. The person applying the material often will use his hand to smooth an edge or a lump or a corner, then wipe his hand on his clothing. Can you think of a better way to transfer asbestos fibers from a job site to everywhere that worker travels? Sticky asbestos fibers now end up where he sits in a restaurant for lunch, on the money he touches, on a loaf of bread he takes off the shelf, but puts back because he decided 12 Grain might be more healthy than 10 Grain, and then finally at the end of the day his asbestos coated clothing is thrown in the washing machine, along with his kid's play clothes, mixing not only asbestos fibers throughout the washing machine, but sticky adhesive asbestos fibers, which could potentially cling to anything else in that load of laundry.
The keiki are our future, if they can make it that far.
As far as isolated instances of burning buildings withstanding a fire - - if only they were coated with asbestos, I would like to see the statistics that show older buildings constructed with asbestos will not burn. Are you saying there were few if any building fires before asbestos was outlawed? Would you argue there were few if any deaths from building fires when construction techniques allowed homes and high rises to be made from materials that contained asbestos? Because that's what is implied when an argument is made that "oh, if only that building was made of asbestos, this tragedy could have been entirely avoided." That argument is a fallacy.
I'm glad construction in Puna hasn't used asbestos since the 1970's, I hope that doesn't change.
The keiki are our future, if they can make it that far.
As far as isolated instances of burning buildings withstanding a fire - - if only they were coated with asbestos, I would like to see the statistics that show older buildings constructed with asbestos will not burn. Are you saying there were few if any building fires before asbestos was outlawed? Would you argue there were few if any deaths from building fires when construction techniques allowed homes and high rises to be made from materials that contained asbestos? Because that's what is implied when an argument is made that "oh, if only that building was made of asbestos, this tragedy could have been entirely avoided." That argument is a fallacy.
I'm glad construction in Puna hasn't used asbestos since the 1970's, I hope that doesn't change.
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