THREAT TO WHITE PLAINS, WESTCHESTER LOCAL CONTROL– TELECOM ORDINANCE.TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY QUIETLY LOBBYING CONGRESS TO KILL LOCAL CONTROL OF TELECOMMUNICATION EXPANSION
WPCNR THE LETTER TICKER. From Ruth Moss, Safetech Westchester. August 8, 2023:
Dear Friends of Safe Technology,
The telecom industry is fed up! They are sick and tired of municipalities like White Plains, Scarsdale, and Ithaca passing protective telecom ordinances.
To retaliate, they have cozied up to their allies in Congress, inducing them to propose 7 new federal bills — the worst of which is HR 3557.
If passed, this draconian bill will demolish local control over antenna placement and open the door to uncontrolled deployment of wireless infrastructure.
The federal government, not your local officials, will have the final say about where antennas can be placed in your neighborhood!
What can we all do? Each and every one of us must call and email our U.S. Representatives and U.S. Senators now!* Here is a choice of 2 sample emails to cut and paste… or use as a voicemail.
Vote no to HR 3557. Local control is at the heart of our democracy!
Or
Vote no to HR 3557. I will not support any candidate who erases local control!
Edit as you wish and send/call to:
*Rep. Jamaal Bowman (So. Westchester) [email protected] (914) 371-9220
*Senator Chuck Schumer: [email protected] (202) 224-6542
*Senator Kirsten Gillibrand: [email protected] (202) 224-4451
Also, write to President Biden. If both the House and Senate approve the bill, he must veto it. Let him know how you feel at https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ (202) 456-1111
Watch a very short video about HR 3557 from Americans for Responsible Technology here.
Federal bill HR 3557 is quickly moving through Congress. Correction: It has not yet passed in the House of Representatives. If it clears both the House and Senate,HR 3557 will make all existing state and local ordinances, lawsuits, etc., irrelevant. It would result in a truly unrestricted proliferation of cell towers and small cell installations near schools, playgrounds, and homes without any local or community input.
Bottomline… the industry is attempting to build out wireless infrastructure without restraint, and make as much profit as they can before it’s proven in court that there is no science to substantiate the U.S. Federal emission standards — except the science generated by telecom-friendly sources.
We must STOP this federal power grab now.
Go get ’em!
Ruth
P.S. Contact your legislators without delay.
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Ruth F. Moss
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Ruth F. Moss
NEW PERSONS CATCHING COVID GO UP TO 423 IN A WESTCHESTER WEEK. 4TH CONSECUTIVE INCREASE WEEK
60 NEW CASES A DAY JULY 30-AUGUST 5 HITS SPREAD OF FEB 26-MARCH 4
LAST AUGUST COVID INFECTIONS WERE DECLINING. NOW THEY ARE RISING FAST
- WPCNR COVID SURVEILLANCE. Data from New York Covid Data. Observation & Analysis by John F. Bailey. August 7, 2023:
Covid cases rose 120 TO 423 July 30 through Westchester Saturday August 5 with a day by day number of infections up consistently all week.
The takeaway: the disease is spreading faster now than it has in 6 months.
Sunday saw 54 cases on the first day of week July 30, followed by 44 cases on Monday (31st) and a shocking 80 new cases Tuesday(August 1), 66 on Wednesday (August 2), 72 August 3, 52 cases on Friday followed by 55 new cases on Saturday, the 4th of August.
This 423 new case week is the first week since February 26 through March 4 when 424 new cases were reported.
That is when only lab tested positives were reported and all positives the result of persons coming in to be tested when they thought they had symptoms. In April the state dropped the requirement that all with symptoms had to be tested.
Instead the antigen tests were distributed and people were on the honor system to test themselves. Well now it appears a lot of us are no longer testing to see if they have covid after they test positive in an antigen. They may have light symptoms. They could be carrying the covid or one if its variants. They may not want to find out they have it, if it means staying out of work, not attending an event. Whatever.
The problem is there is not any new vaccine to ride to the rescue which was the case last August. The vaccine was kicking in and it slowed down July growth. by 40%
The midweek soar in the spreading of covid based on persons getting lab verified tests indicates a lot of people have covid and are passing it more quickly.
As Dr. Katelyn Jetelina advised last week if you test positive with an antigen test you need to get a test or at least test twice with an antigen test because they are unreliable.
Get tested if you go antigen positive twice. Check out the Jetelina column on WPCNR last week. Don’t take my word for it.
As August plows on we will see if this disturbing midweek rising tide of positives. 55 postives on a Saturday is shocking.
That has not happened since February 18 of this year when 70 tested positive back before the only way you could test was at a pharmacy or a health department. That was before the vaccines stopped the spread in April.
Finish up your shots and go for a lab test if you antigen test positive. Know if you are carrying the covid plague. And remember you need if you have covid to take paxlovid within 5 days of infection, otherwise it is not effective, as Dr. Jetelina points out.
The covid disease has been rolling along all July now it is gathering momentum because of our behaviors.
Be aware of that.
At the present rate of 60 new cases a day in Westchester if that stays the same, we will have 1,700 infections for the month. And, we do not know how many people out there have it the disease and are out spreading it. Last August we have 6,000 new cases. At the present rate we may approach that.
78 YEARS AGO SUNDAY HIROSHIMA WAS DESTROYED BY THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB
WPCNR OBSERVATIONS. By John F. Bailey. Reprinted from the WPCNR Archives. August 6, 2019
In view of Russia’s Vladimir Putin being reported by The New York Times Monday as saying he would retaliate with nuclear weapons in the event of a nuclear attack by the United States, it is sobering to note that Mr. Putin has taken this policy gambit.
I would like to point out what an atomic attack does. We have scientific evidence.
Seventy-eight years ago Sunday in 1945, the Enola Gay, a single American bomber dropped an Atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan.
The terrible effects of that single bomb are a horror that has never been repeated
A second bomber, Bock’s Car on August 9, dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
Unknown thousands of Japanese citizens’ lives were vaporized, burned, and maimed and two cities leveled to the ground in an instant in both bombings.
To grasp what one atomic bomb did to Nagasaki, readers may see the photographs Japanese photographer Yosuki Yamato took of the aftermath of Nagasaki the day it happened August 9, 1945 at http://www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/photos.html#journey/63.jpg
The decision to drop the bombs was made after the United States, Great Britain and the Republic of China demanded Japan surrender in the Potsdam Declaration on July 26 or face “prompt and utter destruction”.
The Japanese government did not surrender.
The United States deployed two nuclear weapons dropping one on Hiroshimi, 78 years ago today and one on Nagasaki on August 9.
Over four months the bombs resulted in the deaths of 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki, half dying the day the bombs fell.
The Hiroshima prefecture health department estimated that, of the people who died on the day of the explosion, 60% died from flash or flame burns, 30% from falling debris and 10% from other causes. During the following months, large numbers died from the effect of burns, radiation sickness, and other injuries, compounded by illness.
In a US estimate of the total immediate and short term cause of death, 15–20% died from radiation sickness, 20–30% from burns, and 50–60% from other injuries, compounded by illness. In both cities, most of the dead were civilians, although Hiroshima had a sizable garrison.
The horror of those two bombings and the aftermath, the injuries created have resulted in an effort and reluctance on the part of nuclear-armed powers to avoid any nuclear attacks since that date.
Within a few days of those bombings, Japan surrendered unconditionally, officially ending World War II.
The decision to use the bombs by the United States has long been debated. A dialogue on what the bombs did, why the decision was made was collected in 1995, the fiftieth year since the bombings. It is available at http://www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/commentary/decision.html
It is important that lleaders with nuclear capabilities get a grasp on the reality of the nuclear devastation.
Trying to justify a first strike nuclear attack as a deterrent to a perceived possible attack will destroy the country attacked, their economy, millions of people.
If two little bombs like the ones dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki can level and annihilate the population of a city, a series of nuclear strikes in a first strike or a retaliatory strike with today’s super bombs the world may suffer from prolonged radiation clouds.