So, one day, I got a phone call at the White House. I can't remember if it was '98 or '99. One of these guys, from another Federal agency needed help and advice from me. Obviously the exact words are lost to me but it went something like this
— Dan Kaszeta (@DanKaszeta) May 26, 2020
Now that summer has begun, you might find yourself looking for ways to beat the heat, and maybe one thing you would have thought of might be taking a dip at a swimming pool, and that’s not a bad idea at all. After all, swimming is fun, but not when you’re swimming with lots of harmful chemicals and bacteria.
A specialist in chemical and biological warfare named Dan Kaszeta has warned us not to get in the pools in Las Vegas. And when he says don’t get in the pool, we don’t get in the pool. That’s how dangerous Las Vegas pools are.
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After receiving a few annoyed replies from Las Vegas pool enthusiast Twitter for the enigmatic tweet, he decided to elaborate on why you shouldn’t go swimming in a Las Vegas pool, or even touch the water. Fair warning, it makes for some grim reading.
In a Twitter thread, he explains in the late 1990s he was working as the “chemical and biological terrorism guy at the White House Military Office,” right around the time they were starting to take chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense seriously. While working there, he got a call from another federal agency that needed his help.
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The suspicious sample, it turned out, contained something relatively harmless “like glycerine”. But the control sample, in this case, swimming pool water from a major Las Vegas Hotel, hoo boy.
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(Image Credit: Dan Kaszeta/ Twitter)
Source: neatorama