Needle distribution
What well being commissioner encourages addicts to inject fentanyl 10 to fifteen occasions a day as an antidote to contracting HIV? How is that this not perpetuating a cycle of habit versus enhancing public well being? Who advantages from this craziness within the most secure massive metropolis within the nation? How about utilizing some frequent sense? Cease the distribution of needles instantly. Clear the streets of all tents, chairs, wheelchairs, and so on. Put all of them in therapy. In the event that they refuse, they go to jail. Sixty days in jail will get them off of medication 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 continuously within the late 90’s and early 2000’s in regards to the risks of passing out free needles to drug addicts. Then, the free needles have been being handed out by a bunch referred to as the “AIDS brigade.” In fact, I used to be derided as “backward-thinking,” “old school” and even “racist” for mentioning the apparent.
Quick ahead to 2025: the liberal residents of the South Finish are outraged about discarded needles, filth and dysfunction attributable to drug addicts roaming by way of their neighborhoods, and the town responds by passing out as much as 80,000 needles monthly to addicts, who generally want “10-15 fentanyl injections per day” in line with the town spokesman.
I suppose you get what you paid for, Boston residents. “The chickens have come dwelling to roost,” and no matter old school, “backwards” pearls of knowledge apply. Hold voting for Democrats, Boston residents. You’ll get extra of the identical….
James W. Carnell
Quincy
Postal Service
Having been within the mailing and delivery enterprise earlier than retirement, this may very well be an awesome thought (“Promote the U.S. Postal Service to UPS,” Sept. 2). UPS has at all times been a stellar vendor in my 35 years. If you’re mailing a 3-pound bundle to Kansas from Boston I already know what it’s going to price and when it is going to get there. Once I began my enterprise in 1988 a firstclass stamp price 25 cents. Now a stamp price 78 cents. Give this service to somebody who can deal with it. It’s too vital 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 monitor it is going to comply with. 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 have to be on trip this yr; or possibly climate is simply unpredictable and storms come and go no matter what number of windmills and photo voltaic panels are constructed.
Donald Houghton
Quincy
