Incompetent and Corrupt Government and Corporations

Many people fall into a dualistic way of thinking on almost any subject. It's actually pretty weird. Almost any public controversy out there will spawn two "groups" who back two sides. The East Palestine train wreck thing is like that. Government versus corporation, even though both groups seem pretty inept and probably corrupt and actually have parallel interests that oppose the interests of the people there.

The government wants to cover its ass and seem to be "in control". The railroad wants the same things, and also wants to limit its ultimate payout. That all revolves around the question of how extensive was the pollution caused by the burn of the vinyl chloride. If a large area was contaminated with dioxin the railroad is potentially bankrupt.

That's a pretty simple question to answer--test the soil and water for dioxin in a systematic way. Anyone who made it through a few quarters or semesters of college math or science courses could probably devise a pretty simple protocol for doing that and there are numerous experts out there who have carried out similar tests at prior incidents who already have a good recipe for such testing. It might take some time to carry out, and might involve various iterative procedure changes along the way, but it's simple.

It's clear the government and the railroad can't be trusted with that task. The people there in East Palestine are going to have to hire their own experts and do it. It's retarded to wait for the government to "help".