The chemtrail thing I laughed at for years turned real on me

I used to think chemtrails were just for people who watched too much YouTube at 2am. My buddy Jake kept sending me articles about barium and aluminum in the air and I'd delete them without reading. Then last summer I got a weird rash that showed up every time the sky had those long lasting trails overhead. Doctor in Phoenix couldn't figure it out, sent me to a dermatologist who asked about my exposure to metals. I started tracking the trails against my flare ups. Three separate occurrences in August lined up perfectly. I still don't know what's really going on up there but I can't ignore it anymore. Anyone else had physical symptoms they tied to spray days?

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grantc801d ago

You really had a doctor and a dermatologist both point to metals? That's wild. I had something similar happen last spring. My eyes would get bloodshot and burn like crazy on days with heavy trail activity. Just those days specifically, not regular plane days. The allergist ran tests for everything. Nothing showed up. Then I looked at my symptom log against local flight radar archives. The correlation was too strong to be random. I don't talk about it much because people look at you crazy. But I believe you. Something is off.

sullivan.quinn1d ago

I see it a bit differently though. Confirmation bias is real and it's easy to see patterns when you're already looking for them. Flight radar data and symptom logs can line up by chance more often than people realize. Your eyes getting messed up on heavy trail days could be a hundred other things - pollen counts, wind carrying debris, ozone levels, even just dry air at altitude. Doctors missing something doesn't automatically mean it's something sinister, sometimes it just means the medical system is slow and imperfect. Take this as someone who has spent way too much time going down rabbit holes with my own health stuff, your mileage may vary.

river_thompson1d ago

Feel you on not talking about it, people really do look at you sideways. @sullivan.quinn makes a fair point about chance but when it keeps happening that often it stops feeling random.