[Magdalen] Words

Jay Weigel jay.weigel at gmail.com
Sun Dec 17 00:52:20 UTC 2017


I expect there will be a lawsuit. I could be wrong, though.

On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 6:40 PM Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> On 16/12/2017 17:14, AT&T wrote:
> > As a retired CDC employee, I would like to say the following: diversity,
> fetus, transgender, vulnerable, science based, evidence based, entitlement.
>
> I link this dictum with what is happening at the EPA. We are talking
> about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is quite
> feasible that a loosening of pollution controls could lead to a
> situation where the health of vulnerable groups in particular would be
> threatened by the ingestion of some pathogen. The scientists at CDC
> would make a science and evidence based assessment of the risk and wish
> to alert said vulnerable groups to the risk and how they could mitigate
> it. An example would be the spike in infections related to backyard
> raising of chickens.
> http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/chickens-cdc-illness-1.4364291 The report
> includes this sentence about salmonella infection "The bacteria often
> cause flu-like symptoms, including diarrhea, and can produce more
> serious infections in children, the elderly and people with weak immune
> systems." That is three vulnerable groups.
>
> It is also quite plausible that new drugs or chemicals for agricultural
> use will be developed that have a deleterious effect on fetal
> development. The CDC miught well wish to draw attention to this if the
> EPA under its new Director is unwilling to curb the use of these chemicals.
>
> Roger
>


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