Iām just super fucking bitter that once the flint water crisis got itās 15 minutes of fame people stopped giving a shit. The water is still poisoned, people! Donations have plummeted and people have been forced back into drinking and bathing with the water! The medical effects of this are astounding, cases of legionnaires disease have skyrocketed, people are having seizures, people are having weird rashes break out over their body, people (including me!) are having their blood poisoned, and itās not just lead! itās coliform bacteria! itās THMs! itās all in the water and it gets into the bloodstream and breaks down blood vessels, causing bruising andĀ petechiae and internal bleeding and no one gives a shit anymore and itās only gotten worse like how many people are going to have to die until people realize this is still a problem
I would like to add that the people of Flint cannot sell their houses, because selling a house with leaded water is illegal. Additionally, households with children canāt stop paying for the water because living in a house without running water is cause for CPS to take their kids. Flint has been living this way for over two years.Ā
The people of Flint are trapped by the legal system. And it is only the most high profile case out many cities with a similar problem.Ā
Because the government has abandoned them, they are dependant on help from the outside. Donate here
https://www.instagram.com/p/COEluXKHRXo/?igshid=18sqz34fzhshs
My name is Mari Copeny, Iām a 12 year old from Flint, Michigan. You may know me as Liā¦ LuLu Brezzell needs your support for Little Miss Flin
Mari Copeny has taken the initiative to create a water filter. Iāve linked her GoFundMe thatās she using to raise money for it. Sheās been able to raise $50k in donations but her next goal is $1 million
Water is a basic human right, it says a lot about governments that fail to provide that. Especially for a so called āfirst world countryā
itās really sad that she had to spend her whole childhood advocating for better water because people wouldnāt help her
