On second revision, I admit that some of the language I used may have been inflammatory. Part of it is due to personal feelings because a close friend of mine goes to school in Ohio and I think he said he was just up north of where the incident happened. He told me he felt sick and didn't believe it was as safe as it's being made out to be in the news.

I don't know what to believe. On one hand, I looked into the official reports, the controlled combustion, and how the EPA is saying it's fine. On the other hand, my friend (who afaik had no pre-existing conditions) explained how he wasn't the only one there who thought he wasn't getting the full truth.

I didn't mean to imply there was a conspiracy to shut down news of this event. It was just annoying me how the event was not being given enough priority. Would you not say that the most important things for American news outlets to talk about are those events which directly affect the everyday lives of Americans? So why then does, for example npr and WaPo not put something like this at the top of the headlines? I saw NYT do so just a bit ago, so maybe it's a moot point.

I don't know, I'm just so tired of constantly being on guard and doubting what is and isn't the truth after these past 3 years now