Video Trial on Fluoridation Chemicals Set for June 8 in Federal Court 

 

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Apr 20, 2020, 15:06 ET

NEW YORK, April 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Twice-delayed, a lawsuit seeking to prohibit the addition of fluoridation chemicals to public water systems in the U.S. because of the threat fluoride poses to the developing brain will begin June 8, reports the Fluoride Action Network (FAN).

Under the jurisdiction of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, the eight-day trial will be conducted by video conference, rather than in the courtroom, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

FAN is the lead plaintiff in the groundbreaking case, which challenges a practice endorsed by the U.S. Public Health Service 70 years ago and that today affects more than 200 million Americans through water systems in thousands of communities.

In accordance with U.S. law, the trial will be accessible to the public, although details remain to be worked out. Whatever the precise format, fluoridation, aggressively promoted by the American Dental Association and the government as a tooth decay preventative, will get a close look over eight days.

As plaintiff, FAN is joined by Moms Against Fluoridation and the consumer advocacy group Food and Water Watch. The groups are joined by several individuals representing themselves and/or their children.

Plaintiffs are represented by Michael Connett and C. Andrew Waters of Waters Kraus and Paul of El Segundo, California. The defendant is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), represented by the Environmental Defense Section of the U.S. Department of Justice.

"This case is groundbreaking for the opposition to fluoridation," said Paul Connett, FAN Executive Director. "Several well-conducted and government funded Mother-Offspring studies indicate that fluoride has the potential to lower the children's IQ. These studies have changed the ball-game on the argument over fluoride's neurotoxicity."

EPA plans to call on hired experts from the consulting firm Exponent Inc., known for servicing large corporations.

The lawsuit falls under the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 (TSCA) which gives  EPA the authority to prohibit "the particular use" of a chemical substance if it presents an unreasonable risk to the general public or susceptible subpopulations.

The plaintiffs submitted a Citizens Petition under Section 21 of TSCA to the EPA in November 2016 requesting a ban on the addition of fluoridation chemicals to water. When the EPA denied their Petition, they filed suit in federal court.


A Fact Sheet providing further information on the case is at http://fluoridealert.org/tsca-fact-sheet/
SOURCE Fluoride Action Network

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More than a third of New Englanders may be unable to pay rent amid coronavirus shutdowns

Updated 7:30 AM; Today 7:09 AM 

 

By Michelle Williams | Michelle.Williams@MassLive.com   

As weekly joblessness claims hit all-time highs, more than a third of renters across the region are at risk of being unable to pay come the first of the month.

In a new report from the New England Public Policy Center at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, researchers found an estimated 36 percent of renters and 18 percent of homeowners in New England may be unable to make their housing payments.

The projected value of the combined rent and mortgage payments add up to an estimated $1.5 billion in monthly payments.

The arrival of COVID-19 cases and actions by state and local governments to slow the spread of the virus triggered a rapid deceleration of economy activity, shutting down entire industries.

Hotel occupancy in Boston dropped more than 80%. Travelers in-and-out of Boston Logan International Airport fell by more than 90%.

About 22 million Americans - 13.5% of the work force - have applied for benefits in the past four weeks amid the coronavirus outbreak that has shutdown businesses across the country.

The surge of job losses in the past four weeks marks the fastest rate reported since the nation began tracking unemployment in 1948.

As recently as February, the federal unemployment rate was at 3.5% nationwide, a 50-year low. But as the number of coronavirus cases rise and businesses face uncertainty when they will be able to reopen, job losses will continue to grow.

In Massachusetts, the number of unemployment claims continues to climb.

The state has processed 572,562 unemployment claims since mid-March — a figure representing about 16% of the total state workforce eligible for the benefits. Just over 100,000 claims were filed last week. Filings in Massachusetts peaked the last week of March, when over 180,000 residents filed for unemployment.

MNA Nurses Denounce Mental Health Unit Closure at Heywood Hospital Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

MNA Nurses Denounce Mental Health Unit Closure at Heywood Hospital Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

04.22.2020

Heywood Healthcare says it closed its MHU for financial reasons despite paying its CEO nearly $1 million in 2018 and more than $800 million in extra state and federal funding going to MA hospitals

GARDNER, Mass. – The registered nurses of Heywood Hospital, represented by the Massachusetts Nurses Association, are strongly against the closure of their mental health unit and call on Heywood Healthcare to re-open the unit, which is a critical service for those in need of specialized psychiatric care and is especially essential during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Our mental health unit is an essential service for vulnerable members of our community,” said Kara Belmonte, a registered nurse in the MHU at Heywood Hospital who has been furloughed due to the closure. “There will be a wave of patients seeking urgent mental healthcare as the medical devastation of this pandemic peaks and then flattens and people are left with traumatic memories. Post-traumatic stress, isolation and anxiety will worsen existing conditions and create new psychiatric challenges. This pandemic is a stark reminder of the need for ongoing access to quality psychiatric treatment.”

Heywood’s closure puts additional strain on a system experiencing a public health crisis in COVID-19. As guidance from DPH has stated, “the surge in volume of patients with possible exposure to or symptoms of COVID-19 illness” could “overwhelm the capacity of emergency departments” (Circular Letter DHCQ 02-03-701). There were already patients waiting for mental healthcare in emergency departments and languishing in hospital hallways across Massachusetts before the pandemic. Now in communities like Gardner, where hospitals are closing mental health units, patients face waiting even longer in an ED during a pandemic or receiving no care.

Donna Stern, a psychiatric nurse and MNA chair at Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield, also criticized the decision by Heywood Hospital.

“Before the pandemic, we had a mental health crisis,” Stern said. “During the pandemic, mental health is becoming an even more acute problem. We all know the effects of COVID-19 include tremendous amounts of trauma, stress and challenging circumstances that will create and intensify mental health conditions for patients who will need quality, local inpatient services to successfully recover.”

In fiscal year 2018, Heywood paid its President & CEO Winfield Brown a total of $966,472, according to 990 IRS records. Of that amount, $110,549 was bonus/incentive pay.

Gov. Charlie Baker signs housing bill granting moratorium on evictions and foreclosures during COVID-19

Coronavirus: Gov. Charlie Baker signs housing bill granting moratorium on evictions and foreclosures during COVID-19

Updated Apr 21, 2020; Posted Apr 20, 2020 

By Steph Solis | ssolis@masslive.com 

 

Gov. Charlie Baker signed a bill on Monday that bars evictions and foreclosures from moving forward in Massachusetts until after the COVID-19 state of emergency is lifted, preventing renters and homeowners across the state from being forced out of their homes.

The bill imposes a temporary ban on landlords issuing a notice to quit, which starts the eviction process. It also bars courts from issuing executions, orders that a sheriff or constable could enforce to force someone to move out, and pauses foreclosures.

The Legislature passed the bill, H.4647, on Friday after weeks of negotiations. Rep. Shawn Dooley, who had blocked the bill’s passage on Thursday due to concerns about how the bill would affect landlords, but he relented by Friday.

“This legislation is crucial for public health,” Andrea M. Park, an attorney at Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, said in a statement. “If we are going to stay home to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, we must all have a home to stay in.”

The moratorium will last for 120 or 45 days after Baker lifts the state of emergency, according to the bill.

Although the courts were closed during the state of emergency, that didn’t entirely stop evictions or foreclosures. Landlords could continue to file eviction cases, and in some cases, judges were still granting executions.

More than 700 cases have been filed against renters in housing courts and district courts since March 16, Park told MassLive last week.

The Greater Boston Real Estate Board wanted Baker to propose an amendment to remove a temporary ban on landlords issuing notices to quit. CEO Gregory Vasil told the State House News Service the notices are “a key part of, but preliminary, any legal action.”

Housing advocates, however, said those notices could pressure renters to leave, potentially endangering them in the middle of a pandemic.

Georgia Katsoulomitis, MLRI’s executive director, said the legislation ensures that thousands of renters and families will stay home and avoid contracting the coronavirus.

“Enacting a moratorium makes good sense in both the short- and long-term — and hopefully there is a bigger lesson to be learned: Access to safe and affordable housing is (or should be) a basic human right,” Katsoulomitis said in a statement. “While we still have a long way to go to achieve that goal, the COVID-19 crisis has brought to light just how critical access to housing is to a fair, just, safe and strong society.”

 

 

 

 

Past Future Perfect

 Past Future Perfect

Scenarios for the Future of Technology & International Development 

published May 2010 

by the Rockefeller Foundation and GBN Global Business Network. 

This looks like a fairly innocuous document. Let's check it out:

 

 In the section Lock Step:

From page 19: 

"During the pandemic, national leaders around the world flexed their authority and imposed airtight rules and restrictions, from the mandatory wearing of face masks to body-temperature checks at the entries to communal spaces like train stations and supermarkets. Even after the pandemic faded, this more authoritarian control and oversight
of citizens and their activities stuck and even intensified. In order to protect themselves from the spread of increasingly global problems—from pandemics and transnational terrorism to environmental crises and rising poverty—leaders around the world took a firmer grip on power."  

Any of that ring a bell? This was published in 2010.

At first, the notion of a more controlled world gained wide acceptance and approval. Citizens willingly gave up some of their sovereignty—and their privacy—to more paternalistic states
in exchange for greater safety and stability. Citizens were more tolerant, and even eager, for top-down direction and oversight, and national leaders had more latitude to impose order in the ways they saw fit. In developed countries, this heightened oversight took many forms: biometric IDs for all citizens, for example, and tighter regulation of key industries whose stability...

By 2025, people seemed to be growing weary of so much top-down control and letting leaders and authorities make choices for them.

Wherever national interests clashed with individual interests, there was conflict. Sporadic pushback became increasingly organized and coordinated, as disaffected youth and people who had seen their status and opportunities slip away—largely in developing countries—incited civil unrest. In 2026, protestors in Nigeria brought down the government, fed up with the entrenched cronyism and corruption. Even those who liked the greater stability and predictability of this world began to grow uncomfortable and constrained by so many tight rules and by the strictness of national boundaries. The feeling lingered that sooner or later, something would inevitably upset the neat order that the world’s governments had worked so hard to establish. • 




 

TECHNOLOGY IN LOCK STEP 

While there is no way of accurately predicting what the important technological advancements will be in the future, the scenario narratives point to areas where conditions may enable or accelerate the development of certain kinds of technologies. Thus for each scenario we offer a sense of the context for technological innovation, taking into consideration the pace, geography, and key creators. We also suggest a few technology trends and applications that could flourish in each scenario. 

Technological innovation in “Lock Step” is largely driven by government and is focused on issues of national security and health and safety. Most technological improvements are created by and for developed countries, shaped by governments’ dual desire to control and to monitor their citizens. In states with poor governance, large-scale projects that fail to progress abound.
Technology trends and applications we might see:

• Scanners using advanced functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology become the norm at airports and other public areas to detect abnormal behavior that may indicate “antisocial intent.” 
  
  
• In the aftermath of pandemic scares, smarter packaging for food and beverages is applied first by big companies and producers in a business-to-business environment, and then adopted for individual products and consumers. 
  
  
• New diagnostics are developed to detect communicable diseases. The application of health screening also changes; screening becomes a prerequisite for release from a hospital or prison, successfully slowing the spread of many diseases. 
  
  
• Tele-presence technologies respond to the demand for less expensive, lower- bandwidth, sophisticated communications systems for populations whose travel is restricted. 
  
  
• Driven by protectionism and national security concerns, nations create their own independent, regionally defined IT networks, mimicking China’s firewalls. Governments have varying degrees of success in policing internet traffic, but these efforts nevertheless fracture the “World Wide” Web.
  

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There are more scenarios in this document. Just something to think about as we cower under our beds with our masks on our faces in 2020.

Carry on.

DDS Guidelines for Residential Programs

DDS Guidelines for Residential Programs

The Department of Developmental Services (DDS) is responsible for overseeing the residential programs for developmentally disabled people in Massachusetts. DDS has issued guidelines for caregivers/employees for COVID 19.

The full text of that document is HERE.

There are guidelines for the safety of the clients as well as caregivers.

Because the model of service for MR clients is mainly group homes, there are over 120 group homes in this section of Mass who may send COVID clients to the TDC COVID facility.  

 The first point of contact for a suspected COVID -19 client is the healthcare provider  and the LOCAL BOARD of HEALTH.

Below are the guidelines for reporting :

 From Page 6:

 "Decisions about who had close contact and implementation of legal quarantine are done through the Local Board of Health."

 "...or move to an alternative site is recommended to ensure the safety of the resident."

The TDC COVID facility is such an alternative site. Further research indicates that the Admin Building at the TDC has been selected to be used as the COVID facility.

Some questions about the use of the Admin building :

It has been a while since the final Ferncol Fair, but if memory serves me right that building is carpeted. Is carpet flooring appropriate for a COVID ward? Is carpet easily sanitized?

As an Admin Building, I don't recall many showers or bathrooms, which I think would be necessary in order to care for COVID patients appropriately.

 Here is some information that may be useful for those who care for these COVID patients.

 TDC encompasses Region III/IV  the number to call for PPE -from 7am - 5 pm is 413-750-1400. email REOC34.Manager@mass.gov

Be well.

Julie Farrell

 

COVID Facility at Templeton Developmental Center

COVID Facility at Templeton Developmental Center

From the Templeton Daily Status Update  4/14/20:

Here is a list of questions I have submitted to the Templeton Board of Selectmen for consideration:

Who made the decision to put the COVID facility at the Templeton Developmental Center?

When was that decision made?

When was the Town of Templeton informed of this decision?

When did the TFD inspect the COVID facility at the TDC? The date?

Who made the request for the TFD to inspect the COVID facility?

Has the BOH inspected the COVID facility at the TDC? The date?

Could each selectman individually answer the question of when they knew about the COVID facility at TDC? The Interim town administrator? The assistant town administrator?

Could each member of the Board of Health and the BOH agent individually answer the question of when they knew about the COVID facility at the TDC?

Will the care providers at the COVID facility be on lockdown and required to stay on premises?

If patients at the COVID facility need critical care, where will they go? How will they be transported?

How will patients be released from the COVID facility at TDC?

If a patient dies at the COVID facility, what is the procedure to handle that?

Will the patients at the TDC COVID facility include registered sex offenders? Prisoners?

What is the projected burden this COVID facility will place on Templeton’s Public Safety/Fire/EMS?

What steps are being taken to mitigate the burden on Templeton’s Public Safety/Fire/EMS?

Will the sewage from the TDC COVID facility be brought for treatment to the Templeton Waste Water Treatment Plant?

What steps are being taken to mitigate the COVID load, if the waste will be treated at the Templeton Waste Water Treatment Plant?

Will the COVID facility at TDC prolong the COVID lockdown in Templeton?

Be well!

Julie Farrell

#FireFauci

#FireFauci

Petition: #FireFauci

April 3, 2020

Donald J. Trump,
President of the United States
RE: Indictment & Firing of Anthony Fauci

Dear Mr. President,

I am signing this petition to sincerely request your Administration immediately indict and fire Dr. Anthony Fauci. I agree with Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai’s assessment, which he stated in a Letter to you on March 23, 2020, that:

“The current trajectory of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s public ‘health’ policy will result in the short- and long-term destruction of our citizen’s immune health as well as our nation’s economic health – perhaps a conscious and intended goal. Dr. Fauci’s policy, at best, is based on a 1950s outdated ‘one-size-fits-all,’ non-personalized approach to medicine and public health; and, at worst is derived from a ‘fake science’ understanding of the immune system – one, which Dr. Fauci, over five decades has perpetuated, and exploited to build his career.”

Dr. Fauci has significant and deep conflicts of interest with Big Pharma that has a singular aim: Force medical mandates e.g. vaccines upon all Americans. Big Pharma is failing, and is in economic peril. Forced and mandated vaccines are the only path for Big Pharma’s future.

During Dr. Fauci’s tenure, Americans have been led down a path of corporate solutions delivering policies that have led America to the lowest longevity rates, and highest infant mortality rates, in the western world.

In the current situation purposely driven by fearmongering and fake science, Dr. Fauci, his allies – Big Pharma, Gates Foundation, Clinton Global Initiative, Chan-Zuckerberg, WHO, CDC – and, the Chinese Communist Party (CPC), will profit enormously, both politically and economically, at the expense of the American working people.

It is time we focus on the Immune Health of the American people, which Big Pharma has zero interest in advancing. It is time we fire and indict Anthony Fauci to send a much-needed and long-awaited signal to his Big Pharma allies.

Thank you.

Petition

 

Link to Sign Petition

 

Patents Owned by Dr Fauci

Show me the money!

How much moola can you make off of patents?

Patents by Inventor Anthony S. Fauci

The FIRST Study : Prenatal Fluoride Exposure and Cognitive Outcomes in Children at 4 and 6–12 Years of Age in Mexico

Published Sept. 19 2017

Conclusions:

In this study, higher prenatal fluoride exposure, in the general range of exposures reported for other general population samples of pregnant women and nonpregnant adults, was associated with lower scores on tests of cognitive function in the offspring at age 4 and 6–12 y. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP655

Layman terms: prenatal fluoride exposure lowers your child's IQ

Vol. 125, No. 9

ResearchOpen Access

Prenatal Fluoride Exposure and Cognitive Outcomes in Children at 4 and 6–12 Years of Age in Mexico

 

Click on the title for the full research article.

Pandemic Info

Pandemic Info about your government

Below is that passed in 186th session 2009-2010 during a different pandemic.

S2028 Massachusetts

An Act relative to pandemic and disaster preparation and response in the Commonwealth

SECTION 1. Chapter 17 of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section 2A, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, and inserting in place thereof the following section:- 

Section 2A. (a) Upon declaration by the governor that an emergency exists which is detrimental to the public health or upon declaration of a state of emergency under chapter 639 of the acts of 1950, as amended, the commissioner may, during such period of emergency, take such action and incur such liabilities as he or she may consider necessary to assure the maintenance of public health and the prevention of disease. The commissioner may establish procedures to be followed during such emergency to ensure the continuation of essential public health services and the enforcement of the same. 

In circumstances where the governor declares that the emergency detrimental to public health is limited to a specified local area, the appropriate local public health authority, as defined in section 1 of chapter 111, may, with the approval of the commissioner, during such period of emergency, take such action and incur such liabilities as it may deem necessary to assure the maintenance of public health and the prevention of disease. Furthermore, in such circumstances, such local public health authority may, with the approval of the commissioner, establish procedures to be followed during such emergency to insure the continuation of essential public health services and the enforcement of the same. Nothing in this section shall supersede the normal operating authority of the local public health authorities, provided that such authority shall not be exercised in a manner that conflicts with any procedure or order issued by the Commissioner to assure the maintenance of public health and the prevention of disease during such emergency.

(b) Upon declaring a public health emergency or state of emergency, the governor may activate the state comprehensive emergency management plan and its associated processes, including authority pursuant to chapter 639 of the acts of 1950. Such declaration may authorize the deployment and use of any forces to which the plan applies and the use or distribution of any supplies, equipment, materials, and facilities assembled, stockpiled, or available. 

(c) During such public health emergency or state of emergency, any person who renders assistance or advice during the emergency as provided in section 1 of chapter 258 shall be protected from liability to the extent provided by chapter 258.

(d) During such public health emergency or state of emergency, any person owning or controlling real estate or other premises who voluntarily and without compensation grants a license or privilege, or otherwise permits the designation or use of the whole or any part or parts of such real estate or premises for the purpose of assisting in responding to the emergency, shall not be civilly liable for causing the death of, or injury to, any person on or about such real estate or premises under such license, privilege, or other permission, or for causing loss of, or damage to, the property of such person, except in the event of willful, wanton, or reckless misconduct. The immunities provided in this subsection shall not apply to any person whose act or omission caused in whole or in part such emergency or who would otherwise be liable therefore. 

(e) The declaration of an emergency detrimental to the public health shall terminate when so declared by the governor, or automatically after 90 days, unless renewed by the governor. Each renewal shall terminate after 90 days unless renewed for an additional 90 days, or unless sooner terminated by order of the general court. 

(f) Upon termination of an emergency detrimental to the public health, all powers granted to and exercised by the commissioner and local public health authorities under this section and section 2B shall terminate. 

SECTION 2. Said chapter 17 is hereby further amended by inserting after section 2A the following section:- 

Section 2B. (a) In this section, “Health care facility”, means any non-federal institution, building, or agency or portion thereof, whether public or private (for-profit or nonprofit) that is used, operated, or designed to provide health services, medical treatment, or nursing, rehabilitative, or preventive care to any person or persons. This includes, but is not limited to: ambulatory surgical facilities, community health centers, health maintenance organizations, home health agencies, hospices, hospitals, infirmaries, intermediate care facilities, kidney treatment centers, long term care facilities, medical assistance facilities, mental health centers, outpatient facilities, public health centers, rehabilitation facilities, residential treatments facilities, skilled nursing facilities, and adult day-care centers. The term also includes, but is not limited to, the following related property when used for or in connection with the foregoing: alternate care sites, laboratories; research facilities; pharmacies; laundry facilities; health personnel training and lodging facilities; patient, guest, and health personnel food service facilities; and offices and office buildings for persons engaged in health care professions or services. In this section, “Health care provider”, means any person or entity that provides health care services including, but not limited to, health plans, health maintenance organizations, hospitals, medical clinics and offices, special care facilities, medical laboratories, physicians, pharmacists, dentists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, registered and other nurses, paramedics, and emergency medical or laboratory technicians. In this section, “Health care professional”, includes, but is not limited to, a registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, physician, physician assistant, dentist, pharmacist, pharmacy technician, psychologist and social worker.

(b) Specifically, but without limiting the generality of section 2A and notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the commissioner shall have and may exercise, or may direct or authorize other state or local government agencies to exercise, authority relative to any one or more of the following if necessary to protect the public health during an emergency declared pursuant to section 2A or a state of emergency declared under chapter 639 of the acts of 1950.. During either type of declared emergency, a local public health authority as defined in section 1 of chapter 111 may exercise authority relative to subparagraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), (6), (7), (13), (14), and (15); and with the approval of the Commissioner may exercise authority relative to subparagraphs (5), (8), (9), (10), and (11): (1) to require the owner or occupier of premises to permit entry into and investigation of the premises;

(2) to close, direct, and compel the evacuation of, or to decontaminate or cause to be decontaminated any building or facility, and to allow the reopening of the building or facility when the danger has ended; 

(3) to decontaminate or cause to be decontaminated, or to destroy any material; 

(4) to restrict or prohibit assemblages of persons; 

(5) to require a health care facility to provide services or the use of its facility, or to transfer the management and supervision of the health care facility to the department or to a local public health authority; 

(6) to control ingress to and egress from any stricken or threatened public area, and the movement of persons and materials within the area; 

(7) to adopt and enforce measures to provide for the safe disposal of infectious waste and human remains, provided that religious, cultural, family, and individual beliefs of the deceased person shall be followed to the extent possible when disposing of human remains, whenever that may be done without endangering the public health; 

(8) to procure, take immediate possession from any source, store, or distribute any anti-toxins, serums, vaccines, immunizing agents, antibiotics, and other pharmaceutical agents or medical supplies located within the commonwealth as may be necessary to respond to the emergency;

Massachusetts House passes eviction moratorium bill to address economic impact of COVID-19

Updated Apr 02, 2020; Posted Apr 02, 2020 

 

By Steph Solis | ssolis@masslive.com

The House passed a bill Thursday that would grant a moratorium on evictions and foreclosures for residents and business owners who cannot afford to pay because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The bill, H.1279, bars landlords from charging late fees or sending reports to credit rating agencies if tenants notify them within 30 days of a late payment. The provisions last for up to 30 days after the governor lifts the state of emergency over COVID-19.

“During these unprecedented times, we need to do whatever we can to keep people healthy, safe and in their homes,” House Speaker Robert DeLeo, a Winthrop Democrat, said in a statement. “This legislation shields tenants and homeowners from economic insecurity during and immediately after the period of the state of emergency."

The Senate advanced its own housing bill, S. 2621, and plans to take it up next week. The House and Senate would need to either come together behind one bill or merge their proposals into one version before it can land on the governor’s desk and become law.

The House bill also bars landlords from sending “notice to quit” letters, which notifies tenants of a landlord’s desire to terminate a lease, and prohibits sheriff’s officers from enforcing an eviction execution until 30 days after the state of emergency ends.

There is an exemption for emergency evictions that involve allegations of criminal activity or certain lease violations that could affect public health or public safety, according to the bill. Under those conditions, a landlord would need to send a 10-day “notice to quit” in writing.

Both the House and Senate bills established a moratorium on foreclosure actions for the same time frame, but that doesn’t mean people are free from making mortgage payments.

DeLeo and Senate President Karen Spilka said more than a week ago that they were working on housing legislation in response to the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

Massachusetts is one of the states hardest hit by job losses due to the pandemic. The Bay State had 181,062 initial unemployment claims for the week ending on March 28, up from 148,452 a week earlier, according to a report published Thursday by the U.S. Department of Labor. The previous week’s initial claims alone were more than all the claims the state received for the entire month of February.

More than 60 organizations signed onto a letter urging lawmakers to pass a housing relief bill by April 1, the State House News Service reported.

“Action is needed now to protect these families,” the groups wrote. “The emergency moratorium should be definitive about protecting people from all stages of eviction and foreclosure processes until the end of the crisis, since at this time new cases are still being filed, landlords holding executions are free to use them to throw people out of their homes, and many homeowners remain vulnerable to foreclosure.”

Gov. Charlie Baker said evictions and foreclosures should not move forward as long as the courts are closed, but noted that details were being worked out by lawmakers.

“We know you are worried and we are going to do everything we can to ensure nobody loses their housing because of this crisis,” Baker said last week.

 

 

 

Neurotoxicity of Fluoride

Neurotoxicity of Fluoride

Science versus Denial

Having watched this video, I found it absolutely fascinating - even though I know the issue very well - and I urge all our supporters to watch this video.  It will provide you with the science and arguments to teach others in your own community about fluoride's neurotoxic effects.     

I also urge you to pass it along to friends and especially to any scientists that you know. For the newcomer, it offers a gentle introduction to both the science and politics of the issue.  

I hope after you have watched this presentation you will agree that it's an excellent educational tool on this topic and we would love to hear your reaction to it.

Please note, that while in this videotape Paul puts the focus of denial on the NHMRC in Australia, every fluoridating country has its own critical deniers:

in case of Canada it is Health Canada, aided and abetted by the Chief Dental Officer; in the case of the USA it is the CDC Oral Health Division, aided and abetted by the American Dental Association and more recently the American Fluoridation Society; in the UK it is Public Health England, aided by the British Fluoridation Society; in Ireland it is The Irish Expert Body on Fluorides and Health; in New Zealand it is the Ministry of Health, aided by the Chief Science advisor to the Prime Minister Peter Glickman and David Skegg, President of the Royal Society (Big Names and Big Deception).

All of the above represents power and influence without responsibility. Unfortunately, this in turn is facilitated by doctors , dentists and scientists failing to keep up with the scientific literature. As we have stressed several times they only need to read 4 papers to understand the threat this issue poses to the intellectual future of the fluoridated world. 

The first came in Sept 2017 with a groundbreaking study fromMexico City. This study found a strong association between the amount of fluoride women were exposed to during pregnancy and lowered IQ in their offspring. 

The second came in 2019 when a study published in JAMA Pediatrics essentially replicated the Mexico City finding in Canadian communities. 

The third came in 2019 and found a staggering 284% increase in the prevalence of ADHD among children in fluoridated communities in Canada compared to non-fluoridated ones. 

The fourth came in 2020, when it was reported that children who were bottle-fed in fluoridated communities in Canada lost up to 9 IQ points compared to those in non-fluoridated communities. 

Update on ByLaw

Update on ByLaw 

re: Out of Town Waste 

New date for "Our decision on Article 1 will now be due on July 14, 2020"

The Municipal Law Unit must be out straight with this Corona thing!