10-10-2017, 12:37 PM
Most the residents of Flint don’t have anywhere to go. Those are their homes and it’s a very economically impoverished city.
This never should have happened to them. It’s extremely negligent that officials didn’t ensure that water from the new source was treated with proper anti-corrosion agents. They knew the pipes were old and contained high levels of lead. They’d been warned early on. The massive cover up and lies after-the-fact just make it worse.
Some of those officials are being charged with neglect. I read yesterday that a medical professional among them may be charged with manslaughter. She ignored and then denied warnings of an outbreak of Legionnaires disease after the water was contaminated.
This never should have happened to them. It’s extremely negligent that officials didn’t ensure that water from the new source was treated with proper anti-corrosion agents. They knew the pipes were old and contained high levels of lead. They’d been warned early on. The massive cover up and lies after-the-fact just make it worse.
Some of those officials are being charged with neglect. I read yesterday that a medical professional among them may be charged with manslaughter. She ignored and then denied warnings of an outbreak of Legionnaires disease after the water was contaminated.