By the way, I quit the National Space Society almost three decades ago because they were doing nothing to promote actual space settlement, instead taking industry funding to promote whatever NASA and Big Aerospace wanted to do, even though there was no plausible path from those things to the organization’s stated goals. But I agree (and am working with) the new leadership of the organization as represented by the authors of that Spacenews op-ed.
That probably means that the highest risk is to people whose lungs are already compromised, from smoking, or asthma, or other things. That might also explain why there have been no reported instances of it killing kids.
Bernie isn’t just misguided; he’s evil. There should be just as much opprobrium for having a Che poster or teeshirt as there would be for a Hitler poster or teeshirt, but the cultural Marxists’ Gramscian march through the institutions has been successful. At the suborbital researchers conference last week in Broomfield, CO, I was talking to a professor of physiology from Brandeis. She was a refusenik who managed to get out of Leningrad in the early eighties. She was appalled that the Democrats were on the verge of nominating a communist apologist.