Lead Poisoning

Yes, fuel based lead was a high contributor, but there was also significant impact from lead pipe used in plumbing, lead solder used for domestic water tanks and to a slightly lesser extent in solder for pipe jointing.

The first cup of water from many household taps contains relatively high lead content from the plumbing joints.

Water distributors routinely monitor for <...lead...>. The solution in some cases is to dose trace amounts of phosphoric acid (relatively harmless - there's much more than trace amounts in proprietary brands of cola) into the distribution system, as lead phosphate is completely insoluble.

Lead is no longer used in domestic plumbing solders.

"Lead is no longer used in domestic plumbing solders."

In North America it is still legally used for copper DWV systems as 50/50 solder (drain/waste/vent) but has been illegal for potable systems for something like 40 years. And since any copper DWV work nowadays is almost certainly on existing systems...

Yeah, you're pretty much right.

Let's not forget paint...lead is everywhere, and is bio-accumulative...

..."Lead exposure was attributed to more than 1.5 million deaths globally in 2021, primarily due to cardiovascular effects."...

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/lead-poisoning-and-health

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6254a4.htm

Gasoline was/is the largest cause, not only that, along with that orchards used lead arsenic as a pesticide, that was banned because lead was found in protected species such as bald eagles where their egg shells were becoming thinner.

with that, lead was also found in the ground water due to orchard growers running spray tanks over. Which every orchard grower experienced it be for regulations were created,

Along with that, lead was used in the paints from the shipyards.

as far as surviving, when GW was a huge issue discussion from all the over kill fanatics, I stated that the human race may not ever have been a plan to be a part of the earths future. Oh oh,…

Oh for the good old days when government regulation of business was only a socialist's dream.

Some regulation we can all agree on, is good, some though is agenda based and punitive in nature that serves no purpose other than to disrupt progress that would improve the lives of people...let's not confuse the two...

Yes, the test of time is the only reliable way to determine which regulations are good and which are not. Whether one leans to the right or left, we should all remember that initially both the good and the bad regulations were typically met with criticisms opposing the new rules. No perspective gets it right or wrong all of the time.

Who knows? It is very possible that our DNA as time passes by are also evolving, changing and adapting to the ever changing environment...thereby also developing corresponding antibodies thus enhancing our immunities against lead poisoning...

Thats how evolution works, normally for a lack of a better work is fault or abnormal issue within the DNA, that’s cause by the environment such as ultraviolet radiation, that can have affects of some good/some bad,

the good can adapt to the changing environment,

as opposed to the bad which is a dead end and extinction.

Shouldn't that read "Choose your weed wisely, Path Hopper"?

Only if you lived through but don’t recall the 60’s…

You had to be there('60's) to understand.

Researchers have found high levels of lead in bone marrow of people that had died because of persistent high blood pressure.

There may be many uncounted deaths because of lead.