This could come from several other means:
1. Through bathing;
2. Through skin absorption from no more than being out in the moisture in any form;
3. Through getting into the very dirt under our feet;
and other ways one need only think about for a while in their lives?
Now the issue on bathing in Vienna/ Boaz should no longer be part of the mix, but I know that I have folks who follow my blog in places like the Philipinas; Brazil and even Burkina Faso overseas and of course numerous ones in other States. Not many of them have Filtration Systems. And with the allegations that the C8 is so prevalent in our atmosphere that the whole World is contaminated.
I did not expect Vienna to do anything as far as actual testing of the folks. For several reasons:
1. Mr. Rapp is joined at the hip with DuPont/ Chemours from years of who know what? This is borne out by whatever alleged sweetheart deal he made on the Filtration Systems?
2. There is NO legal obligation for the City to do any testing. And that would be one of the rare instances where Mr. Rapp would stand by a Law or lack thereof.
3. While there is NO legal reason, it would have been a matter of Morals, Ethics and Integrity for the City to offer forums, meetings, conferences; you name it for the folks to have information to allow THEM to make intelligent decisions on possible self/ group options. Sadly, as has been shown year after year of Mr. Rapp's incumbency the issue of Morals, Ethics and Integrity has been lacking and will in the foreseeable future.
I have been advised of possibly at least 7 cases of women being diagnosed with thyroid problems. Are they in some way attributable to the C8? I don't know and unless you, whomever you are want to pay the $400., it is said to cost for the test may yourselves never know? Some insurance may pay for it or some portion, but I would not bet the farm on that?
I spent a while on the phone last week with one of several sources that has close knowledge on this issue and asked some questions (of course), and received what I feared was the following on what the City/ Citizens could do or expect?
1. From Mr. Rapp and Vienna- NOTHING. He pursues gladly it seems the role of being Mayor of DuPont/ Chemours than of Vienna as a whole? Bubba's appear as usual to be the Soup du Jour with him?
2. No way on God's Green Earth that anyone here even though tested in any way could get a late entry into the massive Class Action Suit working its way through the Courts.
3. In ALL probability, no way to begin yet another one because of the cost and requirements that it would entail? That maybe could happen if enough could find the needed legal/ expert help?
4. Some who have professed a knowledge/ following on the matter were not as active as they had professed to be? More of a "side lines" watcher who cashed in after the fact. Don't see what could be brought to the table except to explain "cumulative effects" clearly to those interested? But that could help if done in what I call "simple terms"?
Had I had the chance to represent the Community, I would have pursued the informational part just as a matter of a "Public Service Issue". I campaigned on Morals, Ethics and Integrity; which the Citizens of Vienna were not interested in and would have been my legitimacy to do so. So mode it be. Not to condemn DuPont/ Chemours, that has been and is as I post this being well documented in the Courts through various exposures of documents that seem to go back decades? So donations aside, the deviltry will not go away for a few dollars, I would hope?
I fully realize what I have just written is not positive to anyone who has talked to me about this issue. But it does show just one more of many failures on the part of Mr. Rapp to "represent" the Community. He did not in his first term and will not in this term. So you may as well get used to being the ignored majority.
I will continue to entertain questions from you folks and try to help as best I can. 'nuff sail'.