I can see that the haters will emerge regardless of pleas to the contrary. I stand by all of my words and request that the personal attacks cease. I live in California, learned to fly in California, have lived and worked all over the world, know exactly how it stands economically, with quality of life, etc., and legally. The idea that California is virtue signalling or that this is somehow trivial is … weird.
As a biologist, I am on firm footing that lead has only harmful effects upon all forms of life, including humans. There is no safe level for lead any more than there was for DDT. Time to move on and bring out the adult solutions to save your privileges in flying these older machines around.