Who gets to decide?
Hello to all in the dioxin dorms, and beyond. In a little while I have an interview for a Public Television segment on living in a toxic world. The theme of the program is, “How safe is safe?” and, “How do we live in a toxic world?”
But those are not the real questions. The real question is, “Who decides who gets poisoned?”
If you live in the dioxin dorms, you live there as a matter of state policy. Someone made the decision to have you be there. The decision was based on money and liability; putting you in a toxic place saved enough money, and was sufficiently unlikely to cause liability (not disease) that the decision was made to contaminate your body, and potentially those of your children.
In othe words, the dorms are safe — for the bureaucrats who put you there. They are not safe for you; but it was decided that you were sufficiently unlikely to bring a lawsuit, or connect your illness to the dorms, such that it is safe for the State of New York to keep you there.
Isn’t that disgusting? Well, it is if you think about it.
– Eric Francis, in New Paltz
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