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What does this chart even show? People's lead levels are at 100%?
Edit: okay I understand it now after examining it closer but this seems to contradict what I've heard about lead bans in gasoline and paint causing the crime rates to begin dropping in the late 90s and beyond around 20 years after the bans due to these children reaching adulthood without having been exposed like previous generations. This graph seems to show that it was only GenX who were exposed to a lot of lead, which doesn't make a lot of sense since this stuff was around long before they were born.
This chart doesn't show the adult blood lead levels boomers had through continuing exposure. They didn't get as huge a dose as kids, but they got it for longer.
But yeah, you're understanding why I am asking why people think this is becoming less of an issue. It's just shifting a bit. As a GenXer myself, I would probably be ok with an age limit of like 40 to hold political office at this point. Neither we nor the boomers can be trusted.
To be honest, I don't know how much I trust younger people either with all the plastic in our brains.
It's buckets of people that had those different lead levels, so it adds up to everyone.