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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Kokubunji, 2022.06.25

So it turns out that if you were born in North America between 1966 and 1975, there is a hundred percent certainty that you were exposed to harmful amounts of lead as a child. This would have been compounded by living next to a major highway (as I did from '71 through '78) and having any exposure to small plane engines, which I did from '71 through '91 at a minimum. Those small planes use 20x as much lead in their fuel as cars did at their peak. The average damage to a brain exposed to so much lead, in terms of IQ is 6 points.

rand()m quote

...and when you try to get some, it surely can be hard. There's always trouble waiting, when you leave your own back yard.

—Motorhead, Lost Johnny (lyrics by Mick Farren)