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7 Sep 2024 11:22:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Standard National Stupidity  
From: Phil Cook
Date: 20 May 2008 07:51:15
Message: <op.ubga50b4c3xi7v@news.povray.org>
And lo on Tue, 20 May 2008 12:41:09 +0100, John VanSickle  
<evi### [at] hotmailcom> did spake, saying:

> alphaQuad wrote:
>> Deadly Deltamethrin
>>  Standard National Stupidity is where one hears something and swallows  
>> it hook, line and sinker.
>>  SNS is what makes propaganda and [poisonous drug commercials passed  
>> off as medicine] WORK.
>>  On Verminator, "wont hurt humans but kills cockroaches in seconds", as  
>> they spray another restaurant kitchen with Deltamethrin. Not being a  
>> mindless fish,
>> I thought, no way!
>>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltamethrin
>>  Deadly neurotoxin with no known antidote
>
> "Over time, deltamethrin is metabolized, with a rapid loss of toxicity,  
> and passed from the body."
>
> "No known antidote" does not mean "you're hopelessly screwed if you get  
> any in your system."

Agreed, I pulled up a quick paper on dosages and it seems you'd need to be  
bathing, huffing, or injecting it directly to cause yourself any problems  
and even then the effects seem to go once it's been metabolized (assuming  
you didn't somehow manage a fatal dose). Seems less dangerous then some  
pool chemicals.

-- 
Phil Cook

--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com


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