Caroline Fraser
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You know, I don't really know how to answer that.
I mean, I think that there was...
One of the things that I remember about the high school, for example, was that there was a lot of kind of creepy behavior going on in terms of food fights and just a lot of stuff I don't think you see as much now.
I mean, this is completely anecdotal, so I can't support any of this, but it just felt to me like when my niece and nephew were growing up that โ
that they were less troubled as youth, you know, than we were in the 1970s.
You know, they were growing up in the 90s, you know.
And I think there is a little bit of that.
I mean, there are โ can't prove it, but I think that โ
It may be true that all the jokes about the baby boomers being crazy because of lead exposure, there may be a little bit of truth to that.
And I hope that one of the things my book might be able to do is to encourage people to just think about this in their lives.
And I think a lot of people are now much more aware of lead.
I mean, that thing that you were showing earlier about the Bunker Hill thing, it said that five micrograms per deciliter of lead was the โ they've now lowered that to 3.5.
And it really should be zero, you know, because there is no amount of lead that's safe.
in terms of exposure.
I think it just, if the federal government comes out and says it's zero, then that triggers all kinds of things that have to happen.
And it makes parents freak out because, you know, they might take their child to a doctor and have them tested and find out there's some
You know, if it's not zero, then what are we going to do about it?