Living in Contamination Part Two

1. I moved back to CIncinnati in early 2019.  I moved into subsidized housing in February.  I lived in subsidized housing there for ten months.  In late June I called maintenance to repair broken tiles in the bathroom wall.  In June of 2019 I came home one day to find caulk all over the floor of the shower.  Maintenance had been there while I was gone.  This had not dried fully.  There was not any reason for there to be caulk on the bathroom floor in the first place.  Breathing in caulk fumes while they were drying made me very ill.  I felt like I was going to die.  

 I told building staff about this problem and they acted receptive.  A few days later maintenance showed up at my door demanding that they use more chemicals to repair the tiles in the bathroom wall.  I refused to let them do the repair because I did not want them to make me sick.  The maintenance guy became hostile and tried to force me to let him do the repair.  I told him I had an attorney and he told me the landlord had a bigger attorney that would “eat my attorney alive.”  He finally left when I would not budge on letting him use more chemicals in the apartment.

2. I was transferred to another apartment in the same building in August of 2019. In September of 2019 I got my car repaired from an independent mechanic.  During the visit he got chemical residue on the steering wheel of my car.  This had never happened before during a mechanic visit.  This is really becoming a growing problem, especially in low income neighborhoods.
 
 3. I filed a reasonable accommodation request that chemicals should not be used in my apartment after this.  During a maintenance visit a snake was used to unclog my toilet.  For some reason maintenance used oil based lubricant on the actual toilet snake.  This is very strange.  This ended up leaking onto the floor and contaminating my apartment once again.  

4.  This was the last straw for me and I decided to move in with someone in Nevada, who also had Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. I really felt responsible for getting myself out of the contaminated apartment. This person was in bad shape and had been chemically injured many years ago.  They were allergic to every little thing.  I on the other hand am not allergic to laundry detergent, dish soap and things like that.  I ended up having to leave this person’s house after only three days because they were so allergic to minute things, like my clothes, that had laundry detergent used on them.  I was told by my attorney that in an eviction situation I would have 30 days to stay there after the landlord decided I should leave.  This was not true.  

One day the person I lived with decided that they were going to come into my room, take my clothes out of the room and put them outside.  The person felt that my clothes, which were behind a closed door, were somehow bothering her out in the living room. She felt that because I used laundry detergent when I wash my clothes this somehow was exposing her to chemicals.  I do not think this is actually possible. At one point during my stay my roommate also told me that she felt that police broke into her garage on a regular basis and put chemicals in her car. I think that was a delusion.

At this point I had been exposed to chemicals continuously for 4 years. I had a horrible stomach problem that had not been resolved, which started in June of 2013. I cannot describe how ungodly painful it is to have to live with this chronic stomach pain everyday. This has not been simple to resolve due to all of the chemical injuries.

I was quite overwhelmed by the whole situation. On top of all of that I was now being confronted by some freaked out person about something that didn't really make any sense.

I called the police on her because of this.  People do not have the right to mess around with my personal property.  When police got there they told me they had been out to this house before about a similar issue.  Apparently this person had people move in with her before and had also freaked out on them. One thing police did that was harmful in this situation was they pressured the person I was living with to have me move out of the house repeatedly, which she agreed to.  I don’t think there was any reason to do that and I do not know that this would have happened if they were not pressuring her.

5. I was then living in my car after this.  I went south to get out of the cold weather.  It was December in the Carson City, Nevada area.  I decided I would go to Slab City, CA where people live in vehicles and RVs.  This is about as far south as one can get.  I would have been out of the cold. I did not have enough gas money to make it all the way to San Diego. I stayed at a church that took me in at the end of December.  They paid for a motel for me to stay in for 2 nights.  After that I stayed at a homeless shelter that was 60 miles from Los Angeles.  Someone hit my car the day after Christmas in 2019.  This caused me broken ribs and whiplash.  I was then on foot and had no place to put my personal items, medicine or food.  

I have to stay on a specific diet due to having food sensitivities.  The homeless shelter I was staying at would not let me bring in my own food, in spite of the fact that I was paying for it. Most of the people there ate what the shelter provided them for free.  I had to sneak in vegan food and medicine for 2.5 months in a book bag like it was narcotics.  I went back to Cincinnati in February of 2020 because I could not afford to live anywhere in California on social security money. It was $1,200 there for a studio or one bedroom apartment.

• In subsidized housing one out of five apartments I have lived in have been contaminated.  One was already contaminated before I moved in.  Three were contaminated during maintenance visits.

• When a person is on disability benefits there are few if any places one can afford to live in.  Some of the places that are affordable for disabled people are not available because they have mandatory minimum income limits that are too high.  This causes disabled people to become homeless or to live in unsafe environments. This creates a death trap for disabled people. In many areas every foot of land is defined by government, corporations or is residential.

• When disabled people end up in homeless shelters they cannot control their diet and sleep schedule like they need to. Many homeless shelters are similar to prisons in some ways.

• Of the chemical exposures I have experienced, I think that chemical residue exposures would harm any person.  Chemical injury harms one’s brain, nervous system, liver, intestines, lymph nodes and other organ systems.  Chemical injury is a very burdensome problem for one to have to say the least.  Some people think Multiple Chemical Sensitivity is “all in the mind.”  This is simply not true.  I think MCS is caused by internal health problems.  Some chemicals can be tolerated and some should not be tolerated by anyone. People have died from chemical injury.

• From 2001-2013 I lived in one bedroom and studio apartments in Ohio, Indiana and Northern Kentucky. It is very uncommon for maintenance or the landlord to expose residents to harmful chemicals or cause accidents during maintenance visits.  This has become more common and is especially common in subsidized housing in Ohio.

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Living in Contamination Part One

I have lived in contaminated homes almost everyday for 6.25 years.  

1.  In August of 2014 there was an accident in my apartment that was caused by Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority.  This caused $15,000 in damage to my personal property and exposed me to chemicals I was allergic to. I did not receive one dollar in compensation from CMHA or any assistance resolving the matter.  This was like torture because I have Multiple Chemical Sensitivities. Diatomaceous earth is a desiccant and when one has chronic stomach pain, breathing in desiccants inflames one’s stomach.  This was more painful than anything I have ever experienced in my life. 

2. The boarding house I moved into in June 2015 was already contaminated with desiccants before I moved in.  This was due to there being dry wall dust all over the apartment.  When the air conditioning would turn on it would blow desiccants all over the house.  This was again like torture everyday without interruption. The landlord refused to work with me on this issue. I ended up having to move out of this apartment after one month.  My security deposit of $100 was kept by the landlord. 

3. I moved to another boarding house in July of 2015.  After a few months a homeless crackhead moved in that was working as a landscaper.  He got adhesive residue all over the sink faucet in mid-October.  I had not ever heard of this before.  This caused all four people living there to be chemically injured, including the crackhead.  The residue spread all over the kitchen and would get in one’s food when one would wash their dishes.  This was not directly caused by gangstalking contrary to “media.”  

4. In September of 2017 my car was struck by another car while I was driving, which caused me whiplash.  I bought a new car soon afterwards.  A few days after buying the car I realized there was chemical residue on the steering wheel and dashboard.  This was subtle and I did not notice it during the test drive.  This was again impossible to clean up and became a permanent burden.  The dealer who sold me the car refused to return the vehicle.  I got a lawyer and like many injustices I have had to go through since 2012, there wasn’t anything they proposed doing about this situation.  The residue from the car spread by touch and got all over my apartment. I paid nearly $4,000 for a contaminated car that made me sick. 

• Once these strange chemical exposures get into a person’s home it creates a situation where the person is constantly being poisoned and exposed to chemicals that are harmful.  It gets all over everything and is extremely difficult to clean up.

• In every one of these chemical exposures the company causing the exposure  has never accepted any accountability for exposing me to chemicals.  I have not received any compensation in spite of the fact that this has caused me severe and significant bodily harm and property damage.  I have contacted the EPA and local health department about this matter and they have not done anything. 

Scapegoating

 Scapegoating is the practice of singling out a person or group for unmerited blame and consequent negative treatment. Scapegoating may be conducted by individuals against individuals (e.g. "he did it, not me!"), individuals against groups (e.g., "I couldn't see anything because of all the tall people"), groups against individuals (e.g., "Jane was the reason our team didn't win"), and groups against groups.

A scapegoat may be an adult, child, sibling, employee, peer, ethnic, political or religious group, or country. A whipping boy, identified patient or "fall guy" are forms of scapegoat.

Process in which the mechanisms of projection or displacement are utilized in focusing feelings of aggression, hostility, frustration, etc., upon another individual or group; the amount of blame being unwarranted." Scapegoating is a hostile tactic often employed to characterize an entire group of individuals according to the unethical or immoral conduct of a small number of individuals belonging to that group. Scapegoating relates to guilt by association and stereotyping.

Unwanted thoughts and feelings can be unconsciously projected onto another who becomes a scapegoat for one's own problems. This concept can be extended to projection by groups. In this case the chosen individual, or group, becomes the scapegoat for the group's problems. "Political agitation in all countries is full of such projections, just as much as the backyard gossip of little groups and individuals."^[8] Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung considered indeed that "there must be some people who behave in the wrong way; they act as scapegoats and objects of interest for the normal ones".^[9]

This is the point where one person is singled out as the cause of the trouble and is expelled or killed by the group. This person is the scapegoat. Social order is restored as people are contented that they have solved the cause of their problems by removing the scapegoated individual, and the cycle begins again

High Cost of Chemical Exposures

 "Exposure to chemicals in pesticides, toys, makeup, food packaging and detergents costs the U.S. more than $340 billion annually due to health care costs and lost wages, according to a new analysis.

The chemicals, known as endocrine disruptors, impact how human hormones function and have been linked to a variety of health problems such as impaired brain development, lower IQs, behavior problems, infertility, birth defects, obesity and diabetes. The estimated economic toll is more than 2 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP). The findings, researchers say, "document the urgent public threat posed by endocrine disrupting chemicals.”
The study was published Monday in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology journal. Pete Myers—founder of Environmental Health Sciences, publisher of Environmental Health News and The Daily Climate—is a co-author on the study.  The researchers estimated costs by looking at exposures, then projecting 15 medical conditions linked to the chemicals and the associated health costs and lost wages. The findings are built upon calculations made by the Endocrine Society, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Environment Program. A similar study conducted in Europe found about $217 billion in annual costs due to exposure to these compounds. "

 You can read the rest of the article here: 

http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2016/oct/toxic-economy-common-chemicals-cost-us-billions-every-year

Lumpenproletariat

Artificial

1. made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally, especially as a copy of something natural.

   "her skin glowed in the artificial light"
2. of a person or their behavior) insincere or affected.

made by people, often as a copy of something natural: 2. not sincere

Not arising from natural or necessary causes; contrived or arbitrary

Hīnayāna

is a Sanskrit term literally meaning the "small/deficient vehicle".^[1][2] Classical Chinese and Tibetan teachers translate it as "smaller vehicle".^[3] The term was applied to the Śrāvakayāna, the Buddhist path followed by a śrāvaka who wished to become an arhat. This term appeared around the first or second century. Hīnayāna was often contrasted with Mahāyāna, which means the "great vehicle".