Needle distribution
What well being commissioner encourages addicts to inject fentanyl 10 to fifteen instances a day as an antidote to contracting HIV? How is that this not perpetuating a cycle of dependancy versus enhancing public well being? Who advantages from this craziness within the most secure huge metropolis within the nation? How about utilizing some widespread sense? Cease the distribution of needles instantly. Clear the streets of all tents, chairs, wheelchairs, and so forth. Put all of them in remedy. In the event that they refuse, they go to jail. Sixty days in jail will get them off of medicine extra successfully than handing them syringes.
Sean F. Flaherty
Boston
Free needles
As a retired Boston Police Officer and editor of my union’s newspaper Pax Centurion, I wrote regularly within the late 90’s and early 2000’s concerning the risks of passing out free needles to drug addicts. Then, the free needles have been being handed out by a gaggle referred to as the “AIDS brigade.” After all, I used to be derided as “backward-thinking,” “old style” and even “racist” for stating the apparent.
Quick ahead to 2025: the liberal residents of the South Finish are outraged about discarded needles, filth and dysfunction brought on by drug addicts roaming by means of their neighborhoods, and the town responds by passing out as much as 80,000 needles per 30 days to addicts, who generally want “10-15 fentanyl injections per day” in accordance with the town spokesman.
I suppose you get what you paid for, Boston residents. “The chickens have come house to roost,” and no matter old style, “backwards” pearls of knowledge apply. Preserve voting for Democrats, Boston residents. You’ll get extra of the identical….
James W. Carnell
Quincy
Postal Service
Having been within the mailing and transport enterprise earlier than retirement, this may very well be an ideal concept (“Promote the U.S. Postal Service to UPS,” Sept. 2). UPS has at all times been a stellar vendor in my 35 years. In case you are mailing a 3-pound package deal to Kansas from Boston I already know what it’s going to price and when it should get there. Once I began my enterprise in 1988 a first-class stamp price 25 cents. Now a stamp price 78 cents. Give this service to somebody who can deal with it. It’s too essential to disregard. Mail nonetheless works !
Jack Zaccardi
East Boston
Tropical storms
The Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is watching tropical storm Gabrielle to see what observe it should observe. The earlier prediction of storms this season was between 13 and 19 named storms. Gabrielle would be the seventh named storm, a far cry from the professional’s predictions. World warming should be on trip this 12 months; or perhaps climate is simply unpredictable and storms come and go no matter what number of windmills and photo voltaic panels are constructed.
Donald Houghton
Quincy
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