Are we?
OPEN LETTER TO: the New London Day, Governor Rell and really all people inhabiting Mother Earth!
“A modern day island of Dr Moreau……”
–Â mdnorwich,
Responding to an article about proposals making Plum Island biocontainment level 5 facility either a public recreation area, or selling off to the highest bidder.
Worse than that, mdnorwich.
That island will NEVER be safe enough for either of those two proposed options. The terns know this, the seagulls know this and ornithologist Helen Hays knows this. I’ve been made fully aware of this and so should you.
But Governor Rell seems to know about as much about this as she did about John Rowland’s shenanigans while she was his assistant.
I’m positive she’s not stupid. So I will suggest she and her crones have been very ill advised on this one.
Here, I have another hairbrained idea to pitch in with that will be so splendid we’ll all die blissfully without even a wimper. And it’ll solve about 5 extra problems, ready? Let’s move Vieques bombing range there. We can blast the thing over and over forcing all the incinerated bones of 40 years worth of anthrax, ebola and madcow diseases right up there into our cloud-cover by the megaton.
Then the next species that gets enough intelligence to study lives that came before them can ask three questions.
1) where did the Anasazi go?
2) how did the Inca disappear?
3) what happened to Jodi Rell and all her american people?
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[ref]=[http://sci.tech-archive.net/Archive/sci.med.diseases.lyme/2005-09/msg00122.html]
[ref]=[http://www.semp.us/publications/biot_reader.php?BiotID=639]
[ref]=[http://www.aleutmgt.com/AleutWebsite/Projects/PlumIsland/index.html]
Careful with this somewhat more propagandistic link:
[ref]=[http://www.newsmakingnews.com/plumislandnews.htm]
(plenty of good sources listed also, though.)
[ref]=[http://nationalhogfarmer.com/health-diseases/0715-sites-replace-plum-island]
[ref]=[http://www.theday.com/article/20100520/NWS01/100529989]
[ref]=[http://www.theday.com/article/20100518/NWS12/305189897]