JD Vance

It's actually very sweet and even kind of patriotic, but certainly self-sacrificing where they said, look, no one knows what the effect of this shit is going to be 15 years down the road.

Right.

Because we weren't worried about, OK, a guy drinks the water in East Palestine and drops dead.

The water levels did not have toxins at that level.

But the question was, what happens when you're imbibing the stuff, breathing it in, drinking it at low at trace levels for 10, 15 years?

Like, do you have weird diseases down the road?

Hopefully not.

Right.

I pray every day that hopefully not.

But you can only study that in the moment.

And so we actually, working with a public health epidemiologist in North Carolina and some in Ohio, we actually came up with a plan.

Like, here's what you would need to do.

You'd collect samples in the first six months to a year after the disaster.

I'm talking about like fingernail clippings, things like that.

You'd establish a baseline of toxins in people's blood.

And then five years later, 10 years later, you try to figure out what the toxins were in people's blood five years, 10 years down the road.

And then you'd ask yourself,

What weird diseases, if any, are people starting to develop after 5, 10, 15 years, right?

The long-term health effects of this stuff.

And it was in some ways a really interesting thing to study because we had never had a chemical disaster where we tried to study the effects years down the road.