There's a ridiculous fuss in the meeja about a family being locked out of
their house on account of a broken mercury thermometer, The fuss is ridiculous
because the meeja people are uniformed about the toxicity of elemental mercury.
The people winding up their paranoia know full well that small quantities
of elemental mercury bobbling about on thier bench (sorry, carpet - or in
their oranges) aren't all that toxic.
After all, most of the members of this list have probably suffered the effects
of a broken thermometer or two. And continued to work for the NHS....
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