Blythe Terrell

Like, stress can affect it.

But there could be other stuff happening, too.

As Jennifer mentioned, there's a bunch of other junk into your gas, which, like, makes the mechanism question even harder to answer.

What part of the chemical?

Don't know.

There's also reports of miscarriage, like from Palestinian women after Israeli forces used tear gas on or near them.

Oh.

Yeah.

Wow.

So, yeah, I mean, to summarize, I would say there's obvious, like, direct effects of tear gas.

We see them.

Those are, like, becoming more and more known to us, right?

But it is interesting to me that there's so many clues that whatever these chemicals are, they can be affecting, like, other parts of our body.

And there's just so much that we don't know about it.

Yeah, as we're like putting it, as it's sort of like being poofed out all over the place, right?

Pretty risky.

Yeah.

And again, I mean, we reached out to ICE, the Department of Homeland Security, to ask about these like safety concerns and questions if this stuff is safe.

We didn't hear back.

But what is clear is that even though people are reporting these awful experiences with tear gas, so far for a lot of folks, it's like not stopping them from going out on the streets.