Rose Rimler

When we're talking physiologically, so when you're exposed to tear gas, what it is activating is your nociceptors.

Essentially your nociceptors are the receptors that are in your skin and they're also in your organs and they communicate to your brain that either damage has occurred or might occur.

Yes, exactly.

They're little alarm bells.

And so nociceptors are really responsive to a lot of different modalities.

So they can basically take in a bunch of different types of sensations.

Exactly.

And they communicate it to your brain so that you kind of know, right, that I've cut myself, which is different from walking into a doorframe, which is different from burning myself on a stove.

Not six month old babies.

I mean, yeah, it's diffused, not just in the air, but in the body.

So I guess it could affect all kinds of systems.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Spraying a chemical we don't know that much about on a broad swath of the population.

Mm-hmm.

It's important.

Well, thanks, Blythe.

Next, after the break, we're going to hear from Meryl.

She's been doing research into the effects that these ICE raids have on the people that are being targeted.