{"id":177,"date":"2016-01-31T07:13:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T07:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2016\/01\/31\/how-the-state-of-michigan-feels-about-flint-kids\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:25:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:25:08","slug":"how-the-state-of-michigan-feels-about-flint-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2016\/01\/31\/how-the-state-of-michigan-feels-about-flint-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"How the state of Michigan feels about Flint kids in one ugly quote"},"content":{"rendered":"

rawstory<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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While attorneys have subpoenaed all emails and communications<\/a>
\n between Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder \u00ae over the ongoing Flint water
\ncrisis, a few details have been released<\/a> showing what can only be
\ndescribed as depraved indifference on the part of state workers to the
\nplight of Flint citizens.<\/p>\n

The Republican governor released some staff emails on Jan. 20<\/a>,
\n showing that he was well aware that Flint citizens were slowly being
\npoisoned following a decision by the Michigan Department of
\nEnvironmental Quality to force them to live with lead-tainted water.<\/p>\n

According to the NY Times<\/a>,
\n Snyder was informed in one email that a state nurse told one young
\nmother to not worry about the damage being done to her child when her
\nson\u2019s blood showed an elevated lead level.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is just a few IQ points. \u2026 It is not the end of the world,\u201d the nurse reportedly told the worried mom.<\/b><\/p>\n

According to whistle-blower Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, \u201cIf you were
\ngoing to put something in a population to keep them down for generations
\n to come \u2014 it would be lead.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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