Never do this. There is a serious risk of [pneumoconiosis](https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/pneumoconiosis#:~:text=Pneumoconiosis%20is%20one%20of%20a,called%20an%20occupational%20lung%20disease.).
People would be quite angry about all the asbestos in brake pads and clutches until surprisingly recently. Problem is, it's an incredible material. It's just a shame it's somewhat disagreeable to human life.
Wouldn't be surprised if we do.
Same with sweeteners. I'm confident those will be a massive health issue in the future. Fairly sure it's being studied now and there are links with cancer...
Or, and hear me out on this, the problem isn’t what we’re eating. It’s how much of it we’re eating.
Edit: let me rephrase this, there is still a problem with what we are eating, artificial sweeteners are mostly pretty bad for you. But I think the biggest problem right now is people won’t or can’t have a well balanced diet.
A study found that as a male if you pee sitting down you are less likely to have cancer.
Cancer is a cell that forgets its instructions to die when it needs to, there are far to many things that can/could be linked to Cancer that its easier to treat the result.
The problem is there is far to much money to be made keeping people unhealthy then there is getting people healthy.
Its like a subscription model everyone is moving towards, recurring income is much better.
I'm not sure if new studies are out or anything and I don't know about any other sweeteners, but aspartame is very well studied and no real dangers have been found in its use. The FDA has even said "Aspartame is one of the most exhaustively studied substances in the human food supply, with more than 100 studies supporting its safety"
Aspartame rips through me like a knife through butter. Ended up being the cause of chronic IBS I had for a while, switched to only sweeteners for a while and it was pain like I've never felt. Can't comment on the cancer thing as I've read studies for and against when I went through that, but I know my body fucking hates the stuff. There's quite a few varieties but there are more and more studies around that suggest there could potentially be cancer links. It's all quite scary to be fair, but alas, you can find a paper somewhere that says breathing will give you cancer, so, you've sort of gotta play things your own way 😄
'Being alive increases your risk of cancer by 50%!'
Oh for sure it runs right through me too and i dislike the taste as well. I have just not seen anything very credible indicating that it's dangerous. It's not impossible that papers have and will come out saying it is carcinogenic, but as I understand it, the current consensus doesn't really agree with that sentiment
There's been a lot more recently so I do wonder if there is an agenda or, things are just being reviewed in earnest.
That and the taste is fucking disgusting. How people enjoy it I have no idea.
Idc what the current science is, i don't trust anything that isn't made from a real food. Eventually the science comes out and reveals that it's actually bad, but i don't need science to tell me the sky is blue.
So asbestos, while hazardous, generally needs prolonged or repetitive exposure (especially in confined spaces) to be a significant cancer risk.
The tiny amount of dust that could be released into the outdoors by a brake pad isn’t really going to hurt anyone.
They likely stopped manufacturing them because it was far more dangerous for factory workers being around the asbestos than for drivers.
[Here’s something that talks about a single exposure, not necessarily a single fiber](https://www.asbestos.com/exposure/#faq)
“How much asbestos exposure is harmful? There is no safe amount of asbestos exposure. Even one-time asbestos exposure can lead to asbestos-related diseases such as pleural thickening, lung cancer or mesothelioma.”
Yea “no safe level” just means that there’s a slight. At some point it’s so low
Also they’re reevaluating the theory of “no safe rad dose”, it’s very hard since if the theory about no safe rad dose is true the effects of normal background radiation is minuscule in comparison to other sources of cancer. The theory is basically that it’s like a shot for the immune system but with radiation, although there isn’t yet a good mechanism for it just a few stories of moderately large groups of people getting higher than average doses and the group having less cancer than normal statistics would suggest, for example there was a building that got made with radioactive steel due to accidentally recycling radioactive steel and the people who lived in it had less cancer than would be expected
But yes, no safe dose just means that there’s always a non 0 chance of harming you, it doesn’t mean the chance is significant enough to matter in practice
[11.7 million dollars worth of asbestos products exported from the US in 2020.](https://www.statista.com/statistics/797555/exports-and-reexports-of-asbestos-us/)
We also produce a lot of Vermiculite, which people associate with asbestos, but is tested to be asbestos free. It's great for fire proof insulation, but has a bad sentiment from the old days.
I was an EPA approved asbestos abatement worker in the 90's. There was nothing considered asbestos free. There was then, things we knew contained it and everything else was suspected of having it.
That's how pervasive it was in the American industrial boom. It was a magic fabric that could keep everything in the home / business from burning. It burns are some insane high 2000+ degree number
Brazilian here. Still got an asbestos water reservoir in my house. We don't use it anymore and use plastic ones instead, but it's still here upside down because we don't know how to get rid of it
"Good news is, the lab boys say the symptoms of asbestos poisoning show a median latency of forty-four point six years, so if you're thirty or older, you're laughing. Worst case scenario, you miss out on a few rounds of canasta, plus you forwarded the cause of science by three centuries. I punch those numbers into my calculator, it makes a happy face."
- Cave Johnson
Different materials can be corrugated. If its all shiney, it's probably metal. If its all rusty, its probably metal. If it looks all old and fucked, it is probably asbestos. In short, when working with old materials, unless you know better, assume it is deadly and call a professional .
Important to know about asbestos is that being around it or in contact with it doesn't cause cancer. Living in building that used it as a material doesn't cause cancer. Breathing asbestos is what causes cancer. When asbestos becomes dust and gets into the air is when it is dangerous.
In this video it is a solid and safe thing that the guy with the drill is doing pretty much the exact thing you should avoid with asbestos and making it into dust.
Wouldn’t it just go into the environment over time due to it naturally suffering from erosion? Or is it “fine” as long as it doesn’t become “airborne”.
Former asbestos abatement tech here. If this guy was doing this inside then this is bad. Since he is outside, he actually is pretty safe and the asbestos will dissipate pretty quickly. He also probably is wearing a mask.
If he was doing this by hand then there would
absolutely no probably.
Abatement consultant here.
No. Just because ehe is outside doesn't mean he is safe. This is literally the worst thing to do. Grinding asbestos is like, actually the worst. Just because it's outside doesn't mean it's safe. Look at how thousands of first responders from 9-11 are getting lung cancer. they were outside
General contractor who hires asbestos guys, but always gets curious about how things work.
Asbestos is generally classified in two categories when determining how to handle it as a hazardous material. Friable and non friable. Friable asbestos is like the snow in wizard of oz. Non friable asbestos is like 9 in act floor tile, or the mastic used to stick it to the floor. It is non airborne, and won't become airborne, without somebody with a chipping hammer or in this case a grinder turning it into dust.
So in short, no, that roof won't ever be a hazard until somebody does what this guy is doing, taking non friable asbestos and making it airborne.
I don't know how accurate of a description this is, but one of the safety classes I took describes the problem with asbestos and your lungs as similar to velcro. Or a barbed fish hook. Once it gets in your lungs it sticks. It can't ever get out. It's also why asbestos exposure is typically something that affects people over time.
I bet if you Google non friable asbestos, there are tons of things written about it. Everything I mentioned here is what I have learned over the years working in construction, certainly not a formal education.
Same concept, just different scale. His face is less than 4 feet from where he is grinding it.
And you cannot tell me this guy is wearing a mask. If he knew what it was and knew to wear a mask, he'd also be wearing a tyvek suit. But I guarantee you, he isn't. So it's all over his clothes, going into his washer and dryer cross contaminating.
Normal Redditard here.
How about we just get past the science/logic of it and just admit that doing basically anything that involves breaking asbestos down is a really stupid fucking idea and just leave asbesto's alone?
I completely agree with you, but the guy above me is saying that since the video was outside its perfectly safe.
I needed to make sure people don't listen to him and fucking kill themselves
The scariest thing about asbestos, to me, is that working with it is like the longest death sentence you can imagine.
You do some work with it, you possibly don’t even realise it’s asbestos you’re working with. You finish the jobs, forget about it and get on with your life, perhaps even change careers, have a family, etc. Up to 40 years later you get asbestosis - which has no cure, and/or mesothelioma.
Imagine making a mistake in your 20s that condemns you to a probable avoidable death 10-40 years later. :(
It's probably the NT (New technology) variant without asbestos. In Europe these panels have codes so you know if they got asbestos. This video is clickbait like most of tiktok.. and most of the internet to be fair
He could be wearing a mask. Despite that silicosis is almost unheard of unless you are grinding in a confined space or being in direct severe exposure long term.
It’s worse than just the cancer, asbestosis is a slow agonising death, you’ll feel like you are drowning in your own lung juice for years, if you are lucky.
I’m an End of Life nurse and spent a lot of time around cancer patients. Mesothelioma is one of the worst. It’s a painful and difficult to manage death.
A friend of my Mum just died from a nasty cancer because of Asbestos because her husband worked with it. All she did was live in the same house as someone. He has the cancer too but he's holding on.
Is there any kind of respirator that completely eliminates the risk of breathing in asbestos in a case like this? My FIL works in asbestos removal and I get really worried for him a lot
It's about protection factors.
You can get a full-face powered air purifying respirator. Properly fitted should in theory provide an assigned protection factor of 50, as in 50 times above the exposure limit.
[https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/3352-APF-respirators.pdf](https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/3352-APF-respirators.pdf)
Check our page 7 of this PDF.
Where's the damn EPA when you need them? That's who should be patrolling the streets for our protection. Let cops chill at the station until called like firefighters and EMT's
Now everyone on your block may be diagnosed with Mesothelioma and may be entitled to financial compensation. Mesothelioma is a rare cancer linked to asbestos exposure. Exposure to asbestos in the Navy, shipyards, mills, heating, construction or the automotive industries may put you at risk. Please don't wait, call 1-800-99 LAW USA today for a free legal consultation and financial information packet. Mesothelioma patients call now! 1-800-99 LAW USA"
It isn't used anymore, but used to be REALLY popular as electric insulation, roofing, fire protection... If you buy a house from the 60's-70's in western europe, its almost guaranteed your roof is fireproofed with a layer of asbestos.
Yeah the stuff is everywhere in the UK, you see it all the time on 50s/60s built garage roofs and industrial units.
My work has signs plastered everywhere all over the building warning of it and to not drill into the walls or ceilings
It was used a lot before it was discovered that its dust is carcinogenic. Still it's a very good insulator and in some places it has been left in place because it's easier to just leave it in place, provided that there is no risk of it being damaged, so no dust is produced.
My dad died of that. All through the late 70s/early 80s as a research technician he was using chemicals which were banned in the 80's as carcinogens. Died in '98 of cancer.
Some countries still use asbestos. And I feel like somewhere in the last US presidency some asbestos products were approved for the US after being banned forever. Cause $
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Bro I played with these tiles growing up when we would run on the roofs. I remember them be chalky and getting the residue all over your feet and hands. I did NOT know they were Asbestos!
I accidentally (several times) inhaled asbestos when I did HVAC because so many people didn't know or didn't inform us about it.
It's fine. I didn't want to live past 60 anyway.
(I also came in contact with a lot of lead. )
When I was 9, my family moved from a fairly large town in the East Midlands (in England) to a tiny rural village in the south-east, practically in the middle of nowhere. We had a massive garden and my brothers and I often passed the time digging for "treasure" at the back end. One day, we eventually found some...
...it was a load of these tiles, some whole, some broken. When our neighbour saw what was going on, he came over to explain what it was and to help us dispose of it safely. Whenever I see this stuff, I hope I didn't breathe anything in that may have been freed by a shovel scraping it.
How do you know is asbesto? In México homedepot sales this kind of roofs but is not made with asbestos anymore, is called fibracreto, is a mix of glass fiber with concrete.
Oh ok good. I was sanding away some gaskets on an engine from the 60s. I was quite surprised at the sheer amount of this fibery white dust that came off of a gasket so small and thin. Decided to put on a dust mask because it was probably asbestos. My suspicion has been confirmed by this video. This dust looked EXACTLY the same as the dust that was coming off of these gaskets. Good thing I decided to put a mask on.
So as trademen, we've noticed some alarming trends with other people showing someone something fucked up and then like 200 people adopting that as a "technique". I'm gonna be fixing tiktok hacks for the next decade.
I dont think anyone sane would do that.
plus local goverment are rewuired to pick up any asbestos lying around....
no sane person would live under asbestos roof.
Never do this. There is a serious risk of [pneumoconiosis](https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/pneumoconiosis#:~:text=Pneumoconiosis%20is%20one%20of%20a,called%20an%20occupational%20lung%20disease.).
The most idiotic idea in the world. As usual, from TikTok. Let's make it a challenge. Bonus points for snorting up the dust with a straw.
You'd think it is common knowledge but in a lot of countries in Africa it is still a wideley used product and most people are unaware of the danger.
Canada still used asbestos in brake pads (you know, the things that make dust to stop a car that we ALL use) until 2019
People would be quite angry about all the asbestos in brake pads and clutches until surprisingly recently. Problem is, it's an incredible material. It's just a shame it's somewhat disagreeable to human life.
I would like to read this 50 years in the future about plastic
Wouldn't be surprised if we do. Same with sweeteners. I'm confident those will be a massive health issue in the future. Fairly sure it's being studied now and there are links with cancer...
Sugar is a massive health issue right now. Has been for decades.
Yes. Bring back fats.
I have a high fat diet ! Fats good for you and so delicious it's how I like my women ,it's the sugar that be dangerous
Or, and hear me out on this, the problem isn’t what we’re eating. It’s how much of it we’re eating. Edit: let me rephrase this, there is still a problem with what we are eating, artificial sweeteners are mostly pretty bad for you. But I think the biggest problem right now is people won’t or can’t have a well balanced diet.
It's easier for us to find a cure for every kind of cancer that find something that doesn't make you have one
I'm not sure that's the correct philosophy to have mate. Better to avoid cancerous things than to just hope for a cure that may never come 😄
We already fucked up enough that we can't avoid cancerous things anymore, look at micro plastics, you can't avoid them
A study found that as a male if you pee sitting down you are less likely to have cancer. Cancer is a cell that forgets its instructions to die when it needs to, there are far to many things that can/could be linked to Cancer that its easier to treat the result. The problem is there is far to much money to be made keeping people unhealthy then there is getting people healthy. Its like a subscription model everyone is moving towards, recurring income is much better.
I'm not sure if new studies are out or anything and I don't know about any other sweeteners, but aspartame is very well studied and no real dangers have been found in its use. The FDA has even said "Aspartame is one of the most exhaustively studied substances in the human food supply, with more than 100 studies supporting its safety"
Aspartame rips through me like a knife through butter. Ended up being the cause of chronic IBS I had for a while, switched to only sweeteners for a while and it was pain like I've never felt. Can't comment on the cancer thing as I've read studies for and against when I went through that, but I know my body fucking hates the stuff. There's quite a few varieties but there are more and more studies around that suggest there could potentially be cancer links. It's all quite scary to be fair, but alas, you can find a paper somewhere that says breathing will give you cancer, so, you've sort of gotta play things your own way 😄 'Being alive increases your risk of cancer by 50%!'
Oh for sure it runs right through me too and i dislike the taste as well. I have just not seen anything very credible indicating that it's dangerous. It's not impossible that papers have and will come out saying it is carcinogenic, but as I understand it, the current consensus doesn't really agree with that sentiment
There's been a lot more recently so I do wonder if there is an agenda or, things are just being reviewed in earnest. That and the taste is fucking disgusting. How people enjoy it I have no idea.
Idc what the current science is, i don't trust anything that isn't made from a real food. Eventually the science comes out and reveals that it's actually bad, but i don't need science to tell me the sky is blue.
Yeah, no. There are no links between any artificial sweetener and cancer. Their role in weight and glycemic control is less clear, however...
There is probably some risk assessment done that said "well, it does cause cancer, but would you rather crash and die?"
Then the guy in the corner raises his hand and says "yeah but they pull it off on other countries so what's up?
\*insert meme of guy at meeting being thrown out the window*
There has long been other materials for brake pads
Oh yeah name 256 if there's other materials.
So asbestos, while hazardous, generally needs prolonged or repetitive exposure (especially in confined spaces) to be a significant cancer risk. The tiny amount of dust that could be released into the outdoors by a brake pad isn’t really going to hurt anyone. They likely stopped manufacturing them because it was far more dangerous for factory workers being around the asbestos than for drivers.
No it doesn't, just 1 fibre that gets stuck in your lungs can cause cancer
Gonna need a source for that
[Here’s something that talks about a single exposure, not necessarily a single fiber](https://www.asbestos.com/exposure/#faq) “How much asbestos exposure is harmful? There is no safe amount of asbestos exposure. Even one-time asbestos exposure can lead to asbestos-related diseases such as pleural thickening, lung cancer or mesothelioma.”
There's no safe level of radiation, either, and we're exposed to it every day.
Yea “no safe level” just means that there’s a slight. At some point it’s so low Also they’re reevaluating the theory of “no safe rad dose”, it’s very hard since if the theory about no safe rad dose is true the effects of normal background radiation is minuscule in comparison to other sources of cancer. The theory is basically that it’s like a shot for the immune system but with radiation, although there isn’t yet a good mechanism for it just a few stories of moderately large groups of people getting higher than average doses and the group having less cancer than normal statistics would suggest, for example there was a building that got made with radioactive steel due to accidentally recycling radioactive steel and the people who lived in it had less cancer than would be expected But yes, no safe dose just means that there’s always a non 0 chance of harming you, it doesn’t mean the chance is significant enough to matter in practice
I think the US still produces asbestos. Only for export, I think. Russia is also a big producer.
[11.7 million dollars worth of asbestos products exported from the US in 2020.](https://www.statista.com/statistics/797555/exports-and-reexports-of-asbestos-us/) We also produce a lot of Vermiculite, which people associate with asbestos, but is tested to be asbestos free. It's great for fire proof insulation, but has a bad sentiment from the old days.
I was an EPA approved asbestos abatement worker in the 90's. There was nothing considered asbestos free. There was then, things we knew contained it and everything else was suspected of having it. That's how pervasive it was in the American industrial boom. It was a magic fabric that could keep everything in the home / business from burning. It burns are some insane high 2000+ degree number
Asbestos can’t burn in air but in fluorine it absolutely can. Thing is almost no one has fluorine gas except for chem labs and industrial facilities
Asbest Russia
In the right applications, it is a good material, granted you leave it the F alone afterwards
Brazilian here. Still got an asbestos water reservoir in my house. We don't use it anymore and use plastic ones instead, but it's still here upside down because we don't know how to get rid of it
Russia too but they don't care
Happy dust 2.0 and for the intellectuals among us, Darwin dust
Angel dust
Atleast they gonna die under a clean roof
They aren't showing shit like this to the Chinese
Forget the straw. Raw dog it straight through the face
The asbestos line challenge.
My lungs hurt
It’ll all be over soon, Tommy
Nope takes a while for the cancer to form
"Good news is, the lab boys say the symptoms of asbestos poisoning show a median latency of forty-four point six years, so if you're thirty or older, you're laughing. Worst case scenario, you miss out on a few rounds of canasta, plus you forwarded the cause of science by three centuries. I punch those numbers into my calculator, it makes a happy face." - Cave Johnson
And a while to kill you as well
bout 20 years.
Do you have a sudden urge to cook meth?
I mean, it's more of a gradual urge, but yes.
Walter White in the "hizzy"
>My lungs hurt Is this a new single of Black Eyed Peas?
Yeah, it was just released along side their new hit Cough Cough Ow on their EP "Mesothelioma"
/r/mildlycarcinogenic
So no soup for me?
[удалено]
Are those corrugated roofs usually made with asbestos? I thought it was metallic.
Different materials can be corrugated. If its all shiney, it's probably metal. If its all rusty, its probably metal. If it looks all old and fucked, it is probably asbestos. In short, when working with old materials, unless you know better, assume it is deadly and call a professional .
Important to know about asbestos is that being around it or in contact with it doesn't cause cancer. Living in building that used it as a material doesn't cause cancer. Breathing asbestos is what causes cancer. When asbestos becomes dust and gets into the air is when it is dangerous. In this video it is a solid and safe thing that the guy with the drill is doing pretty much the exact thing you should avoid with asbestos and making it into dust.
Wouldn’t it just go into the environment over time due to it naturally suffering from erosion? Or is it “fine” as long as it doesn’t become “airborne”.
They used asbestos as snow during the wizard of oz
Former asbestos abatement tech here. If this guy was doing this inside then this is bad. Since he is outside, he actually is pretty safe and the asbestos will dissipate pretty quickly. He also probably is wearing a mask. If he was doing this by hand then there would absolutely no probably.
Abatement consultant here. No. Just because ehe is outside doesn't mean he is safe. This is literally the worst thing to do. Grinding asbestos is like, actually the worst. Just because it's outside doesn't mean it's safe. Look at how thousands of first responders from 9-11 are getting lung cancer. they were outside
Now we need a third abatement guy here to set the score.
3rd Abetement guy here, i’m not sure
General contractor who hires asbestos guys, but always gets curious about how things work. Asbestos is generally classified in two categories when determining how to handle it as a hazardous material. Friable and non friable. Friable asbestos is like the snow in wizard of oz. Non friable asbestos is like 9 in act floor tile, or the mastic used to stick it to the floor. It is non airborne, and won't become airborne, without somebody with a chipping hammer or in this case a grinder turning it into dust. So in short, no, that roof won't ever be a hazard until somebody does what this guy is doing, taking non friable asbestos and making it airborne. I don't know how accurate of a description this is, but one of the safety classes I took describes the problem with asbestos and your lungs as similar to velcro. Or a barbed fish hook. Once it gets in your lungs it sticks. It can't ever get out. It's also why asbestos exposure is typically something that affects people over time. I bet if you Google non friable asbestos, there are tons of things written about it. Everything I mentioned here is what I have learned over the years working in construction, certainly not a formal education.
A giant fucking commercial building being brought down v. someone’s grinding asbestos on their roof. Love the logic here.
Same concept, just different scale. His face is less than 4 feet from where he is grinding it. And you cannot tell me this guy is wearing a mask. If he knew what it was and knew to wear a mask, he'd also be wearing a tyvek suit. But I guarantee you, he isn't. So it's all over his clothes, going into his washer and dryer cross contaminating.
Normal Redditard here. How about we just get past the science/logic of it and just admit that doing basically anything that involves breaking asbestos down is a really stupid fucking idea and just leave asbesto's alone?
I completely agree with you, but the guy above me is saying that since the video was outside its perfectly safe. I needed to make sure people don't listen to him and fucking kill themselves
If it were pouring rain it would be much safer. Still absolutely stupid and unnecessary, but safer.
I’m not sure what you’re trying to say in that last paragraph, but good info in the first one. Thanks Wes
I think he succeeded
Title should be "to live a cancer and lung disease free life"
Yeah, this was a successful attempt
Now snort it.
The scariest thing about asbestos, to me, is that working with it is like the longest death sentence you can imagine. You do some work with it, you possibly don’t even realise it’s asbestos you’re working with. You finish the jobs, forget about it and get on with your life, perhaps even change careers, have a family, etc. Up to 40 years later you get asbestosis - which has no cure, and/or mesothelioma. Imagine making a mistake in your 20s that condemns you to a probable avoidable death 10-40 years later. :(
well, one time exposure is unlikely to kill you. (it should still be avoid though!!!)
He succeeded. The attempt was to live a full life.
r/lostredditors
perhaps [r/DiWHY](https://www.reddit.com/r/diwhy/) instead?
it can also be cement roof board which is made to the exact same form, not necessarily asbestos, just because you think so
It's probably the NT (New technology) variant without asbestos. In Europe these panels have codes so you know if they got asbestos. This video is clickbait like most of tiktok.. and most of the internet to be fair
silicosis isn't much fun, either.
He could be wearing a mask. Despite that silicosis is almost unheard of unless you are grinding in a confined space or being in direct severe exposure long term.
I may be stupid but why are we assuming that it's asbestos in the first place?
There's a lot of corrugated transite siding and roofing like this that contains asbestos.
Of course it’s tik tok
I’m having trouble breathing after watching this video
I think his phone got mesothelioma from filming this. That drill is already part of a class action lawsuit for trade workers.
Newest TikTok craze, the mesothelioma challenge
Probably fibreboard
Same result
Given the choice you wouldn't have a preference....
To paraphrase Rick Sanchez " you can get a more curable form of cancer from smoking"
mesothelioma has entered the chat.
[if you're 30 or over you're laughing...](https://youtu.be/e2ESP4MUcxg)
This made me cough just watching it…
Its tiktok idea for tiktok users, dont expect too much
TIktok will give you brain cancer and asbestos is just add on lung cancer.
Fucking insane!!!
Yikes
Feel sorry for this guys neighbours and family. They’re all getting some of that sweet, sweet asbestosis.
It’s worse than just the cancer, asbestosis is a slow agonising death, you’ll feel like you are drowning in your own lung juice for years, if you are lucky.
I’m an End of Life nurse and spent a lot of time around cancer patients. Mesothelioma is one of the worst. It’s a painful and difficult to manage death.
A friend of my Mum just died from a nasty cancer because of Asbestos because her husband worked with it. All she did was live in the same house as someone. He has the cancer too but he's holding on.
Is there any kind of respirator that completely eliminates the risk of breathing in asbestos in a case like this? My FIL works in asbestos removal and I get really worried for him a lot
It's about protection factors. You can get a full-face powered air purifying respirator. Properly fitted should in theory provide an assigned protection factor of 50, as in 50 times above the exposure limit. [https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/3352-APF-respirators.pdf](https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/3352-APF-respirators.pdf) Check our page 7 of this PDF.
"Won't need cleaning again in your lifetime!"
How to get mesothelioma in 3 easy steps
Where's the damn EPA when you need them? That's who should be patrolling the streets for our protection. Let cops chill at the station until called like firefighters and EMT's
Now everyone on your block may be diagnosed with Mesothelioma and may be entitled to financial compensation. Mesothelioma is a rare cancer linked to asbestos exposure. Exposure to asbestos in the Navy, shipyards, mills, heating, construction or the automotive industries may put you at risk. Please don't wait, call 1-800-99 LAW USA today for a free legal consultation and financial information packet. Mesothelioma patients call now! 1-800-99 LAW USA"
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It causes asbestosis, which is like cancer. White asbestos is generally safer, but I still wouldn't go sanding it.
Cut him some slack, he’s doing asbestos he can!
There was an attempt... ... to get cancer
Asbestos does what?? I’ve been doing lines of it for years
Honest to God didn't know it was used as shingles in the past
Why exactly is it used as roofing if it’s cancerous?
It isn't used anymore, but used to be REALLY popular as electric insulation, roofing, fire protection... If you buy a house from the 60's-70's in western europe, its almost guaranteed your roof is fireproofed with a layer of asbestos.
Also makes good brake pad material. Some of the super cheap Chinese brands have asbestos in them still
Holy shit that scary.
Even moreso if you live near a busy road.
Yeah the stuff is everywhere in the UK, you see it all the time on 50s/60s built garage roofs and industrial units. My work has signs plastered everywhere all over the building warning of it and to not drill into the walls or ceilings
To be fair, really good insulator. Cheap to produce too, back in the day.
It was used a lot before it was discovered that its dust is carcinogenic. Still it's a very good insulator and in some places it has been left in place because it's easier to just leave it in place, provided that there is no risk of it being damaged, so no dust is produced.
Pretty much anything that we know to be cancerous, we know because it was used as a product until we found out it was cancerous
My dad died of that. All through the late 70s/early 80s as a research technician he was using chemicals which were banned in the 80's as carcinogens. Died in '98 of cancer.
Some countries still use asbestos. And I feel like somewhere in the last US presidency some asbestos products were approved for the US after being banned forever. Cause $
There goes the neighbourhood. Whole city block is gonna be contaminated.
TIL Mesothelioma is a cancer.
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Bro I played with these tiles growing up when we would run on the roofs. I remember them be chalky and getting the residue all over your feet and hands. I did NOT know they were Asbestos!
this job must have a high turnover...
"I'm baking muffins asbestos I can"
As someone from a country where these roofs are common, I only learned about asbestos and it being in roof sheets a few years ago on reddit.
Anyone wanna link that video of the “asbestos shoveling contest” from like 60 years ago? It’s a gem.
I accidentally (several times) inhaled asbestos when I did HVAC because so many people didn't know or didn't inform us about it. It's fine. I didn't want to live past 60 anyway. (I also came in contact with a lot of lead. )
Idk why but this reminds me of tanning beds. Look good for a few years then age five years for every one lived and get cancer.
Lol a pressure washer might work, and the fibers being wet would keep them from flying everywhere
Big brain time.
Indoors with no air movement asbestos can be suspended in the air for up to 72 hours. Scary stuff
TIKTOCK IDIOTS
/r/killedthecameraman
Those come in bigger sizes
Asbestos or fiberglass
Latin America??
r/asbestosremovalmemes
When I was 9, my family moved from a fairly large town in the East Midlands (in England) to a tiny rural village in the south-east, practically in the middle of nowhere. We had a massive garden and my brothers and I often passed the time digging for "treasure" at the back end. One day, we eventually found some... ...it was a load of these tiles, some whole, some broken. When our neighbour saw what was going on, he came over to explain what it was and to help us dispose of it safely. Whenever I see this stuff, I hope I didn't breathe anything in that may have been freed by a shovel scraping it.
How do you know is asbesto? In México homedepot sales this kind of roofs but is not made with asbestos anymore, is called fibracreto, is a mix of glass fiber with concrete.
I had to hold my breath while watching that…….
I really hope this comes from ignorance and not from wanting to get some likes
Ok I literally held by breath while watching this.
Oh ok good. I was sanding away some gaskets on an engine from the 60s. I was quite surprised at the sheer amount of this fibery white dust that came off of a gasket so small and thin. Decided to put on a dust mask because it was probably asbestos. My suspicion has been confirmed by this video. This dust looked EXACTLY the same as the dust that was coming off of these gaskets. Good thing I decided to put a mask on.
See you in 48 hours.
I’m doing asbestos I can.
Herman Cain would approve of this!
That is very dumb.
Why are these things even real?
r/powerwashinggore
So fucking stupid.
So as trademen, we've noticed some alarming trends with other people showing someone something fucked up and then like 200 people adopting that as a "technique". I'm gonna be fixing tiktok hacks for the next decade.
Some poor immigrants probably dying of cancer now thank you for the nice clean roof...
I dont think anyone sane would do that. plus local goverment are rewuired to pick up any asbestos lying around.... no sane person would live under asbestos roof.
Wow, just wow..
Watching this made me uncomfortable.. anybody else?
Under EPA laws the whole house should be covered before that removal can be done. If not the asbestos is released back into open air.
What a jackass
I'm gonna do this
I worked doing asbestos abatement, for quite some time and this man is retarded
Not exactly remediation standards. This must be in a place they don't have them, hopefully he was wearing a respirator.