You guys keep going on about how you think the public health folks got it all wrong. Lets re-stat the problem, but do it in aviation terms you can all recognize.
You are on a widebody aircraft of some type, going say YYZ to YVR, flying along fat and happy in the vicinity of Manitoba drinking a coffee. A fire light comes on suggesting there may be a fire in one of the cargo holds full of baggage. do you
a) Activate an extinguisher, declare an emergency, then divert to nearest suitable airport when fire light stays on, ask for trucks to roll while on approach.
b) Ponder it for a minute, contemplate your coffee cup, then tell you partner in the cockpit to just ignore the light, it's probably an indicator error, will get excited if the folks in the back start reporting flames coming thru the floor.
Assume for a moment you chose option A. Now you are on the ground and the belly compartment is opened, you see a small charred area in one corner. Do you
a) Pat yourself on the back for activating the extinguisher early and putting the fire out.
b) Grumble and complain because now you have all the hassles of dealing with a major diversion for a fire that was already out.
Tell me RippleRock, are you really going to choose option B and ignore the fire warning? It's essentially what you are bitching about, public health folks didn't just ignore the warnings they got. They did the public health equivalent of 'activate the fire extinguisher'.
but hey, I do understand why you are saying what you did. In 1958 a bunch of miners blew your brains out:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripple_Rock
