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My friend died alone in the hospital
Donato, my oldest friend but one, someone I knew for 50 years, a person who is a part of me, died last week in a Detroit hospital of a stroke. His parents came from a village in Italy to make a better life, found work in the Detroit car industry, bought a home and raised a family. Donato still lived in the house he grew up in.
Donato was kept in a “pod” in the Emergency Room for the first three days because the neurological ICU on an upper floor was full. The entire hospital was overflowing – with unvaccinated COVID-19 patients. While he was dying, his family had to stay at home, for their safety and the safety of hospital staff. Eventually brought to the ICU, he died without his family near, including his 100-year-old mother, who is left bereft of her eldest son.
An ER doc from a Michigan hospital wrote a guest essay in The New York Times the day Donato died (www.nytimes.com/2021/12/08/opinion/covid-michigan-surge.html). He wrote: “Recently a patient in his 70s came seeking care at the small rural hospital in West Michigan where I’ve worked as an emergency physician for two decades. He had tested positive for the coronavirus earlier in the week, was running a high fever and struggled to breathe. When asked if he’d been vaccinated, he snapped back, ‘I don’t approve of the vaccine.’
“A few days later, a young patient sick with COVID-19 was admitted with dangerously low blood-oxygen levels. His spouse and infant child came in to say goodbye just before he was sedated and intubated. ‘I don’t think I’ll see you again,’ he said. He died before the end of the week. He was unvaccinated.
“As of last Monday, nine hospitals in Michigan were 100 percent full, and at least 20 others were at or above 90 percent capacity. Statewide, nearly one in four hospital patients has a confirmed or suspected case of COVID-19. In the last few weeks, my hospital has been consistently at or near capacity and nearly every day the vast majority of those patients are sick with COVID-19. Nearly all have been unvaccinated.”
He goes on to say: “Like in the rest of Michigan, an overwhelming majority of patients in our hospital are unvaccinated, including 98 percent of acute critical care patients. Given that only about 62 percent of Michigan residents have had at least one dose of vaccine, lagging behind the national rate by about nine points, I fear we won’t see an end to the tide of sick people anytime soon, and hospitals can absorb only so many surges.”
Follow the link. Read the essay. Ask yourself which information has actual validity: the ER doctor’s personal testimony or the fog of rumor-driven lies about vaccines. Then ponder this: Lies, tribal allegiances and hate speech are killing people.
Please protect yourself and others. Please make room in our hospitals for the Donato in your life. Please be vaccinated against COVID-19.
William Weinstein
New Paltz
In the beginning
Charlie Chaplin’s movies began as nightmares.
Sparrow
Phoenicia
Freedumb fighters
“Death has a way of alarming most folk!” No need to be scared of staying informed. The pandemic is not a fad that Americans can collectively grow tired of. If you’re scared, just dream up some unrealistic conspiracy theory to make yourself feel better.
That’s not how any of this works.
Not sure what extreme right-wing and vaccinated representative Jim Jordan means by “real America.” He supplies red meat to his base and whips up the anti-science crowd who’ve elected him. Real Americans are still getting sick and seeking health care for COVID-19, so not really “done with it” yet. Tired of it, yes; done with it, no.
The virus doesn’t care how you feel; to it, you are nothing but a host and a vehicle for transmission. As long as you make yourself available for that role, it will gladly take advantage. How, after two years, do people still not understand that?
Grow tired of dealing with it when you are dead, maybe; otherwise, informed adults adapt and deal with reality and the small inconveniences which one undertakes in preventing further spread throughout the community. It doesn’t curb our freedoms.
Since there are those people who refuse to follow the protocols and get vaccinated, we’ll continue to spread the virus and lose those we love. And we think there is no accountability or consequence? All because dummies didn’t want to wear masks and take the advice of good science or medical experts. Guess it’s time to be scared again, guys! Actually, I mean stupider – as it’s your “right,” right?
Enjoy life as an incubator. Ugh! Dear God, please save our children from this dumbing-down of too many. For the record, I’m pro-mask, pro-hand-wash, pro-vax and Moderna, NIAID vaccine-approved boosted. But I’m also an optimist.
Neil Jarmel
West Hurley
Crucial sewer pump station repairs
There are five ways sewage flows to our treatment facility down the hill to the plant on Huguenot Street.
1) Gravity: A great deal of the “material” that needs to be treated relies on a downhill pitch to get to the sewer plant.
There are also four sewer pump stations that collect sewage where an uphill lift is needed.
2) Henry W. DuBois and Colonial Drive
3) Bonticou View and North Chestnut
4) Orchard Lane
5) Henry Court
Henry W. DuBois is the largest pump station, as it handles material from Woodland Pond and everything to its east and southeast, including properties south of Main Street. This pump station was constructed in 1970 primarily to serve the New Paltz Gardens apartments on Colonial Drive.
Our DPW staff recently identified that the station’s meter was over-reporting. During their investigation, it was determined the station and its pit required several upgrades. A temporary sewer main running up the hill is being used while this work is being performed.
The pump station at the bottom of Bonticou View Drive also handles a significant amount of volume serving the northern portion of the Village, including the NBR zone along North Chestnut and the Duzine School. Bonticou is our second-largest pump station after Henry W. DuBois, and these two are much larger than the facilities at Orchard Lane, off South Manheim, and Henry Court, off Huguenot Street. The stations at Orchard and Henry serve a relatively small number of single-family homes.
The Bonticou View pump station was constructed over 60 years ago. This facility has outlived its useful operational life and will need to be replaced if any additional wastewater from potential housing projects is added to its current pumping capacity. The Village has requested Ulster County funding via American Rescue Plan assistance to upgrade this pump station.
Mayor Tim Rogers
New Paltz
Wake up, people
This is a rebutzal to Mr. Butz. To start with, the real news tells us that the gap in the COVID-19 death toll between red and blue America grew faster over the past month than at any previous point in the pandemic, according to a new report featured in The New York Times morning newsletter on Monday. It noted that 25 out of every 100,000 residents in counties that heavily voted for president Donald Trump last November died from COVID in October, which was more than three times higher than the rate in heavily Joe Biden counties (7.8 per 100,000). And October was the fifth straight month when the gap between COVID deaths in Trump and Biden counties widened.
Trump lied about his positive COVID test, exposing more than 500 people to his disease, including Joe Biden, before he was hospitalized for it. He has still not called out to all that they should get the vaccine as he did! And even among red counties, those with more Trump voters had more dire outcomes. The counties where Trump won at least 70 percent of the vote have an even-higher average COVID death toll than counties where Trump won at least 60 percent. So, I hope that all the boys in the HV Proud Boys Club are feeling well.
Regarding President Biden’s accomplishments, I would say that Biden has avoided the mistakes that President Obama made, capitalized on his long experience and respected reputation in the Senate and has achieved remarkable legislative victories, benefiting all Americans, with attention to those most needful and deserving, under the conditions of lunatic, blind and stupid (not an insult but a description) Republican obstructionism and even resistance from members of his own party like Manchin and Sinema, as well from the “progressive quartet/caucus.” I won’t list these accomplishments, as I will presume, perhaps naïvely, that Mr. Butz reads the news.
In addition, Biden has, through the respect he has developed, marshaled international cooperation to limit the tax avoidance of the major corporations, most of which manage to pay no taxes, like Trump. His overall leadership has shown him to be a man of intelligence, morality and competence who is totally committed to his job, as opposed to his predecessor, who was only interested in himself and clearly has a DSM V Axis 2 Narcissistic Personality Disorder w/Cognitive Dysfunction, unable to believe he lost the election (delusion).
I’m sure that if we closely examine Biden’s scalp, that some nits will be found to pick, but I don’t think Jill will allow their dog to have fleas. They are a team and Jill Biden is a gem of a woman. Finally, finally, we are in good hands, and we will prevail in the 2022 and 2024 elections and continue to undo the damage, nationally and internationally, that Trump and his cronies did to our wonderful nation. We will see Stacy Abrams as governor of Georgia and many more Democratic victories as the American people grow to see what President Biden and his competent administration have already accomplished, with much more to come. Just you wait, Mr. Butz, just you wait.
So, Mr. Butz, that’s the real news; if you want to hear fake news, listen to The Donald. Or Tucker Carlson and his ilk.
Meyer Rothberg
Saugerties
P.S. I do not subscribe to HV1; my wife does, but she doesn’t read the letters. I don’t object as much to the mindless attacks on President Biden as I do to the disinformation they publish with regard to vaccination and other safeguards against this pandemic.
Response to Ken McCarthy
If you go to the Internet and research only those sites that support your preconceived conclusions, you come up with a letter like that of Mr. Ken McCarthy (12/1/21) of last week. I did a search on “How to give an IM [intramuscular] injection.” Not one site that I randomly visited recommended aspiration (either overtly or by omission) when giving an IM in the arm. It is not necessary and causes increased pain. So, for those of you giving IM injections and not aspirating: no need for lawyers. Here are a few sites:
Nursing Times (www.nursingtimes.net/clinical-archive/assessment-skills/injection-technique-1- administering-drugs-via-the-intramuscular-route-23-07-2018):
“Aspiration – It is common practice to draw back on a syringe after the needle is inserted to check whether it is in a blood vessel. While it is important to aspirate if the DG muscle site is used – because of proximity to the gluteal artery – it is not required for other IM injection sites (arm, thigh, outside of thigh) (PHE, 2013; Malkin, 2008).”
Minnesota Department of Health: (www.health.state.mn.us/people/immunize/hcp/admim.pdf):
“Aspiration is not required.”
Medline Plus (https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000935.htm):
“7. With a quick firm thrust, put the needle into the muscle straight up and down, at a 90-degree angle.
8. Push the medicine into the muscle.
9. Pull the needle straight out.”
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (www.stjude.org/treatment/patient-resources/caregiver-resources/patient-family-education-sheets/home-care-guidelines/how-to-give-intramuscular-injections.html):
“Insert the needle at a 90-degree angle (straight up and down) into the clean injection site. Use a quick dart-like motion. The quicker you insert the needle, the less it hurts; release the skin; push the plunger; gently push on the plunger until all the medicine is injected; take the needle and syringe out; cover the site with gauze.”
Ted Reiss
New Paltz
Helping Americans build their lives
The phrase “Build Back Better” might not be as catchy as some, but it defines critical legislation proposed by congressional Democrats and President Biden to invest in America and American families. BBB is constructed to help Americans with a leg up to prosperity.
Americans will prosper when, on their way to work, they can drop off their kids at high-quality daycare settings. Peace of mind enables people to work effectively and creatively.
Americans will prosper by knowing their children are getting a powerful jumpstart on their education with universal Pre-K.
Americans will prosper with paid family leave that gives new parents the chance to bond with their newborns and deal with health care complications.
With a continuing expanded childcare tax credit, American parents will be freed from agonizing decisions about paying rent or buying food for their families.
Many more Americans will prosper with expanded health care access through Affordable Care Act subsidies and Medicaid, making it easier to pursue better job opportunities.
With the BBB legislation, Democrats are showing that they understand the challenges of family life and care about all Americans’ quality of life. What did radical Republicans do when they controlled Congress and the White House to support American people? They exercised their power by cutting taxes for the super-wealthy and corporations that enriched themselves with stock buybacks. Did those radical Republicans, when they had the opportunity, advance legislation to address stagnant wages, crushing child care costs, unaffordable health insurance? They did not.
Who do you trust to be on your side? Trust your eyes and ears. Let your representatives know you support Build Back Better’s investment in American people.
Tom Denton
New Paltz
On top of things?
Our supervisor is quoted as saying, “Historic designation is based on a famous person living here, a famous event taking place or an incredible example of architecture. The first two cannot be used.” Seems that McKenna was not aware then of the possible historical significance of the Jonathan apple for the Comeau renovation.
From HV1: “State officials may be close to determining if Woodstock’s Comeau Town offices are eligible to apply for historic status. State historic recognition could have a major impact on a planned $2.9 million renovation of the Town offices and nearby Supervisor’s Cottage.”
Howard Harris
Woodstock
Holiday in the Village thanks
The Saugerties Chamber of Commerce’s 2021 Holiday in the Village, held on Sunday, December 5, was a wonderful event; even the weather cooperated. This was truly a community celebration. So many people and organizations contributed to the fabulous experience.
Thanks to: Bob, Larry and Macy Siracusano, Ray Tucker and the Sawyer Motor Automotive Foundation crew for the three toy raffles. Marge and Harry Block for the use of the Dutch Barn at the Kiersted House. It was the perfect temporary headquarters for Santa and his elf. Leanne Thornton and Betsy Wilson for their endless serving of hot chocolate at the Dutch Barn. All of the volunteers at the Dutch Barn. The Saugerties High School Key Club for their assistance around the Village. Jeannine Mayer and the Kiwanis Club for the tree-lighting and reading of “The Night before Christmas” at Seamon’s Park. Town supervisor Fred Costello, Village mayor Bill Murphy, the Saugerties Police Department and the Department of Public Works. Hope Rocks, the Rock Academy and the Reis parking lot deejay for music throughout the day. Thanks to Mirabella’s and J. J. Newberry’s for hosting the musicians. The local Fire Departments for the great firetruck parade. Ray and Carol Ann Mayone for the horse-drawn carriage rides. The Saugerties Library, the Saugerties Boys and Girls Club. Upstate Films and the Orpheum Theater for their participation. The Village merchants for their beautiful window displays, gifts and snacks.
We hope we didn’t forget anybody. Everyone’s involvement is truly appreciated.
See you next year.
Mark Smith
Chair, Saugerties Chamber of Commerce
Peggy Schwartz
Vice-chair, Saugerties Chamber of Commerce
Traffic lights in Woodstock
I suspect that some of our Woodstock neighbors, cherishing an image of the Town in the 19th century, oppose the installation of traffic lights, imagining that only farm carts trundle into town, or that waiting for the traffic to clear at the Village Green or down at the bridge at the foot of Mill Hill gives us an opportunity to contemplate the quaintness of it all. They don’t see the panic in the eyes of confused pedestrians wondering whether they should cross at the green, or feel the frustration of drivers on Rock Hill and West Hurley Roads gripping their steering wheels and kicking themselves for not avoiding the Town altogether. Perhaps rethinking the issue is in order.
Norman Corenthal
Woodstock
Jussie, we hardly knew ye
After reading Neil (I’m a staunch supporter of “Critical of the White Race theory”) Jarmel’s opinion of the Kyle Rittenhouse case and verdict, I’m guessing Neil thinks Nick Sandman was guilty and O. J. Simpson is still looking for the person who murdered his wife and her friend. As of this writing, the verdict in the Jussie Smollett trial has not yet been determined, but if Jussie is found guilty, I can’t wait to read Mr. Jarmel’s ranting analysis of the verdict.
Below is an account of the Jussie Smollett incident and the events that followed, told by Jussie himself. (For best results, this parody is to be sung to the Kingston Trio’s folksong “[Hang Down Your Head] Tom Dooley.”) (Note: the reader should imagine the chorus being sung by Jussie’s lawyers, led by a passionate Neil Jarmel.)
(song opens with chorus)
Hang down your head Jus Smollett
Hang down your head and lie
Hang down your head Jus Smollett
Your lying will get you by
Got home early one morning
I was standing on my own two feet
I was tired but very hungry
I went looking for something to eat
My fridge was cold but empty
Of what I was looking for
So, I decided to take a short walk
To a nearby Subway sandwich store
There was a cold spell in Chicago
The temperature was 10 below
And though the hour was 2 a.m.
Off to Subway I had to go
I was walking with my hero sandwich
When much to my surprise
There came a-walking towards me
Two big ugly angry white guys
They wore hats that had big earflaps
And were dressed like Eskimos
They tried to take my sandwich from me
And poured bleach upon my clothes
They said, “Empire, you’re a big star
But we don’t like your kind
This here’s Trump’s MAGA country”
And that really messed up my mind
(chorus)
Hang down your head Jussie Smollett
Hang down your head and lie
Hang down your head Jussie Smollett
Your lying will get you by
They said, “You’re a famous gay guy
And a member of the black race”
They put a noose around my neck
And then punched me in the face
They were laughing as they left me
Dazed and sitting on the street
The bitter cold air revived me
And I struggled to my feet
I told the whole world my sad story
The police did their due diligence
But the more they investigated
The less my sad story made sense
I had political connections
Barack Obama was my friend
So was dear Kamala Harris
I hoped they’d help me in the end
There’s much more to my story
But I’ll give you the bottom line
I was indicted on 16 charges
And got off with a $10K fine
We held a big press conference
I said I’m innocent ‘cos I’m my mother’s son
Some of my friends said they believed me
Most believe I’m a lying son of a gun
Well, the last thing my lawyers told me
Was, “The feds are looking at your case”
They said, “You best keep a real low profile
And wipe that victory smile off your face”
(chorus)
(Ah well ah) Hang down your head Jussie
Hang down your head and cry
(Ah well ah) Hang down your head Smollett
Your lying might not get you by
Your lying might not get you by
George Civile
Gardiner
Let’s get with it
Anyone who has lived in New Paltz for long knows that there are very few, if any, available affordable apartments for rent. Of course, we have quite a large number of students who want to live within walking distance to the college, and this results in many apartments or even single rooms leased to these students. This also means that there are fewer or perhaps no available apartments for seniors or for low-income families. There are many low-wage earners who are working in the Village all the time, and they cannot afford to live here at all. This means that they have to spend more of their low wages just to get to and from their jobs.
So, what’s the point? The Village has had an objective in its long-range plan to develop more affordable or low-income housing. The Village has an affordable housing board that tries to foster such housing in the Village. But neither the plan nor the board nor a well-intentioned Village administration can make enough of a difference to really matter. We need to have active citizens to lobby for county, State of New York and federal support for developers who are willing to put the effort into building additional apartments and making them realistically available to the workers and seniors who make up a vital part of our community. We need to have the more comfortable citizens of New Paltz to call, write, to badger those in power to make effective plans and to fund those plans to assure that the workers and seniors whom we see in the stores and restaurants of our Village are able to live here, too.
It is time not just for a written plan, but for an effective plan to get the funds and the developers who know how to do this to create a substantial number of affordable homes for the people who serve us and who would live among us. Let’s get with it.
Tom Rocco
Ulster Activists
New Paltz
Build back better
On November 19, 2021, the US House of Representatives passed the $1.7 trillion Build Back Better Act (HR5376). Considered one of the most significant pieces of legislation in over 50 years, it promises to improve the lives of all Americans, with a particular focus on families and working people.
Among its many provisions are unprecedented investments to combat climate change. Four key elements are:
1. Delivering substantial consumer rebates and tax credits that will reduce costs for middle-class families that want to shift to clean energy and electricity.
2. Ensuring the development of clean energy technology and jobs with American-built wind turbine blades, solar panels and electric cars.
3. Advancing environmental justice by investing in clean energy projects around the country, with 40 percent of the benefits to disadvantaged communities.
4. Bolstering resilience and creating natural solutions to climate change through investments in coastal restoration, forest management and soil conservation.
The bill is currently being debated in the US Senate, where a final vote may be held later this month or in early January 2022. Whatever final form the bill may take, all residents of Ulster County and the mid-Hudson Valley will benefit from these initiatives to combat climate change. Now is the time to contact our senators, Chuck Schumer (www.schumer.senate.gov), (914) 734-1532, and Kirsten Gillibrand (www.gillibrand.senate.gov), (518) 431-0120, to express your support and to urge them to pass Build Back Better now.
Joel Mason
Kingston
Tech City iPark87 looks like a shady deal
The Ulster County Legislature will vote on selling most of Tech City’s 28 parcels to a Connecticut real estate investment company on December 21.
The taxpayers deserve to know what the full market value is. Our real estate is hot. Is this a good deal for taxpayers? How polluted is the site? Five land-locked parcels by the railroad track, sold for $13 million in August. The buyers have no access or right of way to this parcel. On December 12, a remote meeting was held by Town of Ulster citizens. The county executive said he has not met with those buyers. That statement is false according to an article from the Daily Freeman.
This all looks like a shady deal. Please investigate this transaction. It’s the biggest news in 30 years. Drive around the property. It’s a beautiful place.
Ryan Van Kleeck
Town of Ulster
Big winner!
Rarely do I like to brag this much, but this past week while playing Professor Jeopardy from home, against three pretty smart professors, I stood alone on the final question winner’s podium because I knew about precession. This is the term to describe the slow but significant wobble of the earth’s axis. (HV1 astronomer Bob Berman would’ve tied me, but likely he was outside stargazing). Look it up.
The thing is BIG because it is the single cause of the ice ages sweeping mile-thick ice down from the north about every 26,000 years covering the entire reporting area of HV1, creating the Bering Sea land bridge from Russia to Alaska, allowing North America’s first immigrants to walk over and dropping the ocean level about 200 feet below where it is today. Our human relatives have survived several of these global events.
They adapted, migrated and today we don’t have to worry about 100 years from now. The grandkids will be fine unless greed and stupidity gets us all killed. Don’t blame Mother Nature and visit the pyramids if you want to. Carbon dioxide is not a problem!
Paul Nathe
New Paltz
Pass voting rights acts now
The Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, filibustered by Republicans this year, are the highest priorities in preventing GOP extremists from eliminating and stealing votes that do not favor them.
Before year end, the Senate must meet the urgency of this moment and turn its attention to critical legislation that would protect every citizen’s democratic right to vote. Senator Schumer must postpone Congressional recess to get this done.
Attacks on our electoral system, beginning with the violent January 6 insurrection in our nation’s capital, have only accelerated. An extremist GOP continues the assault on American democracy with the introduction of more than 400 voter suppression bills in GOP-controlled state legislatures, targeting the black and brown communities who came out in record numbers against Donald Trump in 2020. These new bills, not only make it more difficult to vote by curtailing early and mail-in ballots, but also by distorting district maps to concentrate GOP minority political power.
The right to vote is the backbone of our democracy. Let’s not allow the GOP to break it.
Lyn DelliQuadri
Kingston
Friends of Saugerties Library express their appreciation
The Friends of the Saugerties Public Library send a big thank you to the nearly 200 people who took time to visit the Festival of Trees on display at the library as part of the Chamber of Commerce’s hugely successful Holiday in the Village.
The judged display brought winners in two categories. In the kids and teens, Saugerties Public Library Teens took first place; the Saugerties Public Library Kids came in second place.
In the Adults and Organizations category, the Saugerties Monday Club came in first with the Saugerties Public Library’s Staff coming in second.
The Friends group is providing gift certificates to Meltaway Bakery for the first-place winners in each category.
The Friends are a group of volunteers who help to raise funds for the library. They have provided free passes to museums, computer upgrades and also an annual $1000 scholarship to a Saugerties High School graduating senior. The Friends also sponsor an annual library fair and a fall event.
New Friends and volunteers are always welcome. Go to the Friends tab on the library’s website.
Jo Cicale
on behalf of Friends of Saugerties Library
Saugerties
The evolution of mistrust
Critics ask why some people don’t want to take the mRNA synthetic jab and why we don’t trust the official narrative. I would say the mistrust began with government agencies lying about the JFK assassination; lying about the fictional Gulf of Tonkin incident, leading to the deaths of 50,000 loyal soldiers; lying about the 911 events, including three steel framed high-rise buildings collapsing in under 12 seconds on the same day, which never happened before in the history of the world; lying about failing to intercept four hijacked planes in one day with a multi-billion-dollar defense system at their disposal; lying about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq leading to the deaths of 500,000 innocent Iraqi children; waging war on multiple oil-rich countries that had nothing to do with 911, while awarding the largest weapons contract in the history of the world to Saudi Arabia who US courts ruled was involved. The CDC, a government agency, claims the virus came from bats in a fish market that hadn’t sold any bat meat since 2016 and those specific bat colonies were 500 miles away, while just down the block 300 yards, the Wuhan lab funded by Anthony Fauci, was doing “Gain of Function” research with those very bats. Then the CDC mandates the use of the inaccurate PCR test whose inventor Gary Mullis, said never use it to diagnose any disease. The inventor of mRNA technology, used to create the Covid-pseudo-vaccine, Harvard trained expert immunologist Dr. Robert Malone who wants the vaccine program halted, paraphrased the Director of the World Health Agency, for governments to abandon infinite booster madness or it will create a super virus (https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/sep/1/sorry-facebook-forced-universal-vaccinations-are-n/). Meanwhile, the FDA now wants 75 years to release the data they used to approve Pfizer’s vaccine, which only took them 108 days to review (https://aaronsiri.substack.com/p/fda-doubles-down-asks-federal-judge). So let’s get this straight: they want to force us to take a shot, that according to the latest Harvard study does not prevent transmission or infection (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-021-00808-7?fbclid=IwAR); that the FDA reported an unusual amount of “post marketing experiences” (adverse events) including death (https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5.3.6-postmarketing-experience.pdf); that the public cannot sue if harmed; and that the FDA wants to restrict the public for 75 years from fully seeing the data they used to approve it after they are all dead and gone, similar to the government’s behavior with JFK’s Assassination details? No good reasons for mistrust, right?
Steve Romine
Woodstock
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