The Genericville population deserves the best and as a city council member I feel obligated to uphold the needs and wants of our city, while also protecting our environment as a whole. Since our population depends on our vacationers for to help provide economic stability I must also take into account the needs of those who do not live here, but visit as well. Our wetlands, fish, and birds depend on us to be good stewards over them. This being said I have researched and analyzed all l aspects of the risk verses the benefits of our community using Malathion. The health of our community, environmental risks verses benefits are all important factors that I am basing my decisions on. I hope as a community we can agree together even if we disagree on my decision to not use Malathion.
Here are the facts of the situation of the West Nile virus in our community without any hype or emotion. Currently there are 306,109,168 Americans in the United States. There are 4,269 Americans that have the West Nile Virus in the United States. Our Community population is 100,000. In perspective to the number of total United States population, less than 2% of our population is at risk of contracting the West Nile Virus. In the United States 177 fatalities were reported because of the West Nile Virus, but once again look at the population of the United States 306,109,168. In our community of Genericville residents that represents 2 deaths. A loss of human life is tragic, but I would like for our eyes to be open to the reality of what we are facing what can happen if we base our economic and ecological decisions off of the grief of the loss of loved ones or the sensationalism that the journalist have placed on our situation.
Upon further review of the proposal from Malathion, the projections of hazard identification, dose response, exposure and risk characterization were all provide by funding from a wealthy city resident who suffered family loss from exposure to the West...