From the Centers of Disease Control.
A poison is any substance, including medications, that is harmful to your body if too much is eaten, inhaled, injected, or absorbed through the skin.
Exposure
Contact with a substance by swallowing, breathing, or touching the skin or eyes. Exposure may be short-term of intermediate duration, or long-term
Let me be clear; medical terminology cannot be manipulated. The terminology is exact and it is supposed to be exact because it has been developed over the past century and quite possibly longer. Poisoning is correct in the case of the Flint children.
The people that died of Legionnaires Disease were exposed to a bacteria that infected their bodies and caused their deaths. No matter who wants to say those people would be dead anyway of comorbidities is nonsense. The comorbidities with these adults were being managed and under doctor's care to be managed. The bacterial infection set them up for septic shock and they died.
The people of Flint were poisoned and not exposed. The lead was immediately in the water when the Flint River water interacted with the pipes and released the lead into the drinking water. That is not an exposure. The lead was permanently in that water.
Not only were they DOSED with a poison in the water it was sustained for a year before the country found out about it and relief was obtained in the way of bottled water. Lead in the water for more than a year is not an exposure that was suddenly discovered. The Lead was KNOWN to be in the water, THE US EPA WROTE SEVERAL TIMES TO SNYDER IN REGARD TO HIS NON-COMPLANCE WITH WATER TREATMENT and the impoverished were helpless to do anything, in addition, their local government was disarmed from acting in any capacity to end the poisoning.
To be clear; the State of Michigan offices that had Flint River water in their taps at their offices were provided bottled water dispensers immediately; while the people of Flint were disregarded as important enough to immediately take action at the same time Snyder took action for his employees.
The people of Flint, Michigan were poisoned over an extensive period of time DELIBERATELY because their lives were considered insignificant for socio-economic reasons. In other words, "Flint asked for it in needing an emergency manager at all!"
The people of Flint were POISONED. End of discussion.
Hurley Medical Center needs to be sued for falsification of records and a new director for the entire hospital be found. Everyone on that panel needs to be replaced as soon as possible. These are serious ethics violations.
May 18, 2018
By Ron Fonger
Flint, MI -- Doctors at Hurley Medical Center (click here) have dumped the term "lead-poisoned" when referring to Flint children who went through the city's water crisis and adopted a replacement -- "lead-exposed."
The doctors unanimously approved a resolution at an annual meeting this week, agreeing to discontinue the use of the word "poisoned" when the medical staff communicates as a collective body, according to a posting on Hurley's Facebook page.
"Everyone agrees that there was an issue in 2014-2015 with (blood-lead levels) and that any lead level over the lifetime of a child is bad," the Facebook post from Thursday, May 17, says.
"However, a lead exposure does not equate to a lead poisoning and therefore does not equate to a damaged generation of children in the city of Flint."....
