The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #88848 Message #1670570
Posted By: punkfolkrocker
16-Feb-06 - 09:33 PM
Thread Name: BS: Scent Free Environment
Subject: RE: BS: Scent Free Environment
its late, i'm tired, and reading this thread is making me angry..
my sister has suffered near fatal asthma attacks triggered
by smokers and/or strong perfume wearers.
she is now virtually a housebound prisoner,
no longer able to risk visiting most public places.
She now has precious little social life
and fewer and fewer remaining friends
prepared to visit her at home
as her health has deteriorated.
The internet is her only lifeline to the wider outside world..
..but what quality of life is that..
She has no choice but to deal with the life-sentence
of 'living in a bubble'
imposed by the ignorance, selfishness, and stupidity of mass humanity.
My health is not so bad as yet..
but in the last few years i find myself being increasingly adversly affected
by allergic reaction to strong commercial fragrances..
it can be an instant reaction of nausea and unsettled equilibrium..
my skin can quickly break out in ecezema..
luckily i've never experienced asthma.. so far..
the air in most public places is a toxic potentially harmful fug.
Even in my local sports & leisure centre / gym
which has a corporate incentive in promoting
good health and well being..
..the changing rooms are poorly ventilated,
yet the daily build-up of 'toxins'
from the uncontrolled use of mutivarious aerosol spray deodorants
and vanity perfumed products
of dozens of guys using the facilities..
compounded with the continuous industrial chemical air freshner jets
overhead in the urinals..
it might just as well be a military chemical warfare training chamber
as far as i'm concerned..
it directly affects my health,
so i cant use the changing rooms..
which means as a consequence
its difficult for me to use the swimming pool and steam/spa facilities
which i pay for substantially every week as part of my membership fee..
so I've no patience with clever-arsed reactionary mockery..
this is a real health threat..
think how you might respond to a sudden unprovoked punch to the nose, throat, or diaphagm..
or being sprayed in the face with mace..
its not a joke..
not when common everyday fragrance enhanced products
can cause a similar shock to the system
to individuals like my sister and myself..
..and i'm sure that although sufferers like us are at present discounted
as merely only a small minority of 'weaklings' & 'compainers',
the numbers are surely growing rapidly generation by generation
as the social environment becomes increasingly and permanently polluted
with the noxious products of fuckwitted 'consumer choice'.
Great.. smoking will be banned in pubs and venues..
thats positive progress.. i can start going out to gigs more often again..
but there will still be the potential real threat
that i will be assaulted by the 'fragrant' chemical agents
of cretin culture lifestyle-product over-consumers..