That's stupid. The medical effects of the first responders is being studied in great detail and all the effects are the result of the air they breathed.
How many first responders do you know? I suspect zero. I know a couple and meet countless others in my day-to-day travels. This is because I live in Staten Island, NY, the bedroom community that has more families of victims and surviving first responders than anywhere else.
I live near one of the medical facilities dedicated to 9/11 first responders.
You are welcome and encouraged to stand at the entry to this facility and ask these heroes any questions you want. If it should become necessary, I'm sure the docs will patch you up, not that I wish violence on anyone.
The Mount Sinai WTC Program Clinical Center on Staten Island
Richmond University Medical Center
690 Castleton Ave
Staten Island, NY 11801
Dear Big Al,
I am going to make an effort here to reach out for common ground. I am not here seeking to win an argument, score a point, make you look bad or anything like that. Let me repeat: I am here seeking common ground and discussion on something we can both agree needs attention, care and thoughtful cooperation.
With that frame of reference in mind, one of the outreach issues presented by the DEW assertion is that in the absence of a clear understanding as to what destroyed the WTC, it is not possible to come to grips with the medical effects that were caused.
I have come across the name of Dr. Jacqueline Moline, Director of the WTC Medical Program:
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Is it your understanding that program is being starved for funds? What is its current status?
Anyway, the issue of not knowing what actually happened is almost certainly a factor in the inability to properly treat those who are suffering. For her part, Dr. Moline recognizes and acknowledges the mysterious nature of the toxicology:
"Among the many points that Dr. Moline made, the first was that the 9/11 rescue and recovery workers “are patients not victims”. Dr. Moline’s second point was in reference to the toxicants and toxicant exposure as she said that it is “always difficult to prove the cause of an issue with a toxicant.
Science is bad about mixed exposure and this was a completely unknown mixture”. Dr. Moline further stated that there absolutely was no and there is “no literature about this yet, it is a total new thing”. Despite the fact that ‘we do known the constituents’ there is ‘NO preexisting evidence’”.
From a scientific and medical standpoint this is clearly a novel, complicated situation riddled with issues."
I have elsewhere posted up the suggestion that posters look into some of the companies that manufacture, develop and test directed energy weapons, including their lethal effects. I named two companies in particular:
SAIC and ARA.
I also mentioned the Directed Energy Professional Society (DEPS) and the AFRL's Directed Energy Directorate.
An outreach effort desperately needs to made by respiratory sufferers to the directed energy community with the aim in view of EXPLORING whether, just for the sake of, say, research, the medical effects might be consistent with the lethality effects of certain types of DEW. Obviously this has to be done very carefully and thoughtfully for reasons I don't think I have to spell out.
What I am aware of, however, is that the US Directed Energy Directorate was not at all offended by Dr. Wood's outreach to them and to her claim that DEW destroyed the WTC. So, an inroad already exists as a matter of record, could more folks but realize it.
Once again, Big Al, the concern her is for the medical treatment of people who are suffering, for whom there are no answers, as yet.
Can that hurt? After all, no one knows what causes the illnesses that many are suffering from, all as so plainly stated by Dr. Moline, as quoted above.
