Re: Re: Fired Due to Environmental Illnesses!! WHen is Enough, Enough!

[Guest guest]

Oh Who,

.. I have a lot going on and I took the time to write something

for letitia. it's for the cause, the more out there in web land, the

better chances of helping others as well as ourselves.

I so agree oh How I agree.

Peace

Elvira

[] Re: Fired Due to Environmental Illnesses!! WHen is

Enough, Enough!

-geez erik, your just a real downer. why didn't you try to start

something like letitia is, 20+ years ago????????? can you possably

look beyond yourself? sence you know so much after 20+ years why

haven't you done something more productive than whining because no

one listened to you back than. you really could have helped many in

those 20+ years, but it seems you just hang around waiting to say I

told ya so. what good does that do?? and to anyone that wants to send

nasty letters, save it. I don't care to hear any of it. I to get

aggervated at it all. I have posted links with information on the

very questions being hashed on this board but I guess no one reads

because I don't copy and paste it and they might have to do some

work. I have a lot going on and I took the time to write something

for letitia. it's for the cause, the more out there in web land, the

better chances of helping others as well as ourselves.

-- In , " erikmoldwarrior "

<erikmoldwarrior@...> wrote:

>

> " Letitia s " <mold_activist@> wrote:

>

> > Am I wasting my time?

>

> > Your mold buddy,

> > LETITIA PETERS

> > Activist

>

>

> Before you proceed further with mold activism, you should contact

> Rick M.S. author of " Trichothecene Mycotoxicosis may be

> Indistinguishable from CFS " and hear his story.

> He tried to warn me about the strange counterintuitive way

sufferers

> were completley disinterested, and vehemently rejected his

> information, and told me I was wasting my time: " They probably

won't

> listen to you " .

> I couldn't believe it, telling him " But I'm a prototype for CFS.

They

> can't possibly ignore this. " and put my story out in vast numbers

of

> websites, the CDC/NIH, bmj, various doctor groups and researchers,

> group, and most of all " Mold Warriors " .

> I'm still having a tough time trying to make sense of the sheer

> magnitude of disinterest from the very people who would seemingly

have

> the greatest desire for this information.

> -

>

[Guest guest]

I think that this situation is a very complicated one that defies

easy, often simplistic (some might say naiive) 'solutions'.

By all means, we have to fight, but there is a very large chance of

unintended consequences, because our entire system is really at the

breaking point right now in so many ways, and very few of us are able

or willing to admit that and attempt to put together real - instead of

band-aid, solutions, because it would require big changes..

For example, the legacy that our mold illness has left many of us with

of bad health promises to cost us so much to deal with that its like a

lifetime curse on us.

The only solution to this problem that I see is CHANGING THE WAY THE

HEALTHCARE SYSTEM WORKS FOR EVERYONE.. Making GOOD healthcare a

right rather than a luxury only affordable to the rich -those who can

afford to step outside of the insurance/HMO/PPO system..

(God help those who have no insurance at all.. many of us here.. They

are basically completely abandoned by 'our' system..)

We DON'T want to get to that place, but we will unless we all work

together now to help every one of us fight this demon of willful

ignorance..

[Guest guest]

Okay, let me play the devils advocate here and say, 'what if the

government acknowledged tomorrow all that we know is true about mold

and health' - what would happen?

The first thing that would happen is that many, many people would be

thrown out of their (rented) homes because their landlords would not

want to chance the liability that would accrue if they could not

(falsely, almost ridiculously) claim to be 'unaware of' the health

nightmare that mold brings upon tenants like they do now..

Under our system, this is the 'logical' thing for them to do.. tear

their buildings down.. replace them with condos, etc.. (most would

LOVE to do this..)

That low-income housing would disappear..

That is NOT what we want, but we don't want landlords who have

poisoned people for years, knowingly, while pocketing profits that

they should have invested in maintenance - to cash in again with

subsidies either.. at the taxpayers expense.. Its a dilemma..

The only way around this is to set up mold remediation squads.. which

would do the work on a mass scale, at cost.. Now whose toes would be

stepped on.. the remediators.. But its the only way to preserve

housing stock..