New York thoracic surgeon: "For many patients 9/11 is not over"

If even a little bit of the insurance money could start funneling into things like physical therapy (actual physical therapy not the BS artists at big hospitals who print you out a sheet of generic exercises) people could see practitioners who actually care about you being functional.

I tore my achilles and saw a string of doctors, podiatrists, physical therapists, chiropractors, etc. before finally finding someone that doesn't take insurance but who had me running again within a few months. He was cheap compared to the amount my insurance was being billed for a chiropractor to try and sell me $500 custom insoles. The money is there it is just being funneled in all the wrong ways.

What’s was needed was likely pretty basic PPE: P100 respirators along with outer clothing that would be kept out of people’s homes and showers when leaving the site. (PAPRs would have been even better, but they wouldn’t have been cheap or available in large numbers on short notice.) Unfortunately, if you watch modern construction workers, you’ll find that PPE is almost universally ignored when performing common but dangerous tasks like cutting concrete or lead-painted surfaces.

The people running this show don't give a flying fuck about the working class. They'll march us into the meat grinder no matter what.

Let's also remember some of the glaring WTFs about 9/11:

• no plane at the Shanksville site • no plane at the Pentagone • aluminium planes ("eggshells") shown on TV going cookie-cutter style through steel girders • WTC building 7 "pulled" (Silverstein), which takes months of preparation • unprecedented and ridiculous "pancake collapse" (which of course was demolition)

Even if there was only a single one of these severe plausibility issues ("showstoppers") for the "terrorist attack" narrative, the entire story should be met with the utmost scepticism, if not straightforward refusal to accept.

But all five of them, and people still go on about the alleged victims, now with the anniversary "dust cloud" refresher? Seriously! First try understanding how this "Hollywood in Manhattan" show was pulled off, and how you were fooled into believing it.

(Sarcasm aside, there obviously are big problems for how these 2 nations responded to the massive terrorist attacks. But I kind of think it’s questionable to pretend there was no big terrorist attack that triggered the response...)

Instead, it's clear that that isn't the case. Plenty of research, including studies on firefighters and other first responders on 9/11 and the days after (and plenty of anecdata from doctors around here) have borne out that the health effects from being around Ground Zero for the first couple of weeks after 9/11 was much deadlier than simply breathing in mild air pollution.

(In addition, while I didn't live here at the turn of the century... what air pollution? Manhattan doesn't have a collection of coal power plants near Wall Street. It doesn't have more ICE cars than most other cities; it probably had fewer ICE cars per square mile than an ordinary Wal-mart parking lot in the suburbs.)

9/11 resulted in building collapse throwing something like 1-2 million tons of debris into the air, which then fell and was on fire in a huge pile for 100 days.

Concrete, drywall, glass, asbestos, you name it.

This is nothing like regular car/heating/power combustion exhaust which is well understood, regulated, and result of reasonably efficient conversion of mass to energy.. at least by comparison.

About 400 tons of asbestos was thrown into the atmosphere around Manhattan when the towers fell.

https://archive.ph/I6vOQ

The distinction is that the strongest evidence is among responders, workers, residents, and others who were directly exposed, rather than showing that cancer suddenly increased across all of NYC.