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womanofthehills

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77. The info about the plumes can be found online
Sun Mar 7, 2021, 04:12 PM
Mar 2021

One plume went over the Oscura Mts, across Chupadera Mesa (which I can see from my house & still has plutonium on it's ridges) and over Cedarvale (where my friend lives) - continuing up NE New Mexico. Other plumes went east and west of the Trinity Site. There were so many ranches in the area and none of the people were notified.

While our nation struggles to survive the COVID-19 pandemic, New Mexicans are already engaged in a deadly health crisis that has cost the lives of thousands of our beloved family and community members for the past 75 years. This crisis is the overexposure to radiation from the world’s first nuclear bomb detonation at Trinity Site in south central New Mexico on July 16, 1945. In the process it made many New Mexicans the first “Downwinder” communities exposed to radiation from nuclear weapons. The Trinity test in New Mexico was followed by the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki three weeks later and we are all memorializing our dead on this 75th anniversary of the nuclear age. And just as the country is waiting for a pandemic recovery plan, New Mexicans are still waiting to be included in the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) found in U.S. House Bill 3783.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/opinion/511522-coronavirus-strikes-new-mexico-on-the-75th-anniversary-of-the?fbclid=IwAR1Mh0OQ_2IVN5k0zxVAfH3QrZNsN3JDpLpxDm-Gj55VQxnxAzMoVbHwI5U

They are government property. Order them. underpants Mar 2021 #1
I knew about sunburns but not snowball fights. Phoenix61 Mar 2021 #4
Snowball fights are a no-no underpants Mar 2021 #17
I read an article that they can't order vaccines mandatory until FDA approval jimfields33 Mar 2021 #7
That's what Rebl2 Mar 2021 #20
When I served in the Army, we followed orders, no one complained we knew it was for our own good. KS Toronado Mar 2021 #49
Some military objected to the anthrax shots - (Doe v Rumsfeld) 2005 womanofthehills Mar 2021 #53
Yeah, that went out when the government invented LSD and other mind altering drugs Calista241 Mar 2021 #9
Soldiers are still used, with their consent, to test experimental drugs underpants Mar 2021 #16
You don't know the facts. The government did NOT invent LSD. Look it up. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2021 #45
Yes, but they did test it on people without their consent Yeehah Mar 2021 #59
Here is an article explaining the process jimfields33 Mar 2021 #10
When the vaccines receive standard FDA approval (right now they just have emergency authorization) hlthe2b Mar 2021 #13
Thank you. underpants Mar 2021 #15
spent the first ten years of my life in the Marines mountain grammy Mar 2021 #21
You received mandated FDA-approved vaccines recommended by ACIP for adults. See my post upstream hlthe2b Mar 2021 #24
Sorry that's an excuse mountain grammy Mar 2021 #36
You apparently did not fully read what I posted to you. They CAN legally mandate hlthe2b Mar 2021 #41
I read it and comprehended it.. mountain grammy Mar 2021 #42
Decades of working in public health, I can assure you I know exactly what NEEDS to occur. hlthe2b Mar 2021 #43
"living and working in close quarters" RotorHead Mar 2021 #66
"They are government property." RotorHead Mar 2021 #65
A legitimate beef voiced in an unacceptable manner. No need for that tone. marble falls Mar 2021 #73
I have to agree with the poster. TwilightZone Mar 2021 #74
In other words: A legitimate beef voiced in a nasty way ... marble falls Mar 2021 #75
RotorHead DashOneBravo Mar 2021 #76
I had no idea.... RotorHead Mar 2021 #81
Good lord DashOneBravo Mar 2021 #83
"Good lord" RotorHead Mar 2021 #84
Like some master sergeants DashOneBravo Mar 2021 #86
Also DashOneBravo Mar 2021 #88
I couldn't decline an inoculation in the Navy. rickford66 Mar 2021 #2
The same was true in the Air Force. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Mar 2021 #11
"I never had a thought of refusing them." sarge43 Mar 2021 #39
I am glad I was inoculated while in the service Prof. Toru Tanaka Mar 2021 #46
Yes indeed. sarge43 Mar 2021 #50
We were not given a choice when I was in TimeToGo Mar 2021 #12
(Doe v Rumsfeld) 2005 womanofthehills Mar 2021 #55
Then there was that time five men stood under a nuclear explosion. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Mar 2021 #14
LLiPS DENVERPOPS Mar 2021 #52
I live 50 miles north of the Trinity Site womanofthehills Mar 2021 #56
People living downwind from the nuclear test sites had more cancer cases than those who didn't. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Mar 2021 #63
I would love to see a map DENVERPOPS Mar 2021 #64
The info about the plumes can be found online womanofthehills Mar 2021 #77
I am sad and sorry for everyone down there. DENVERPOPS Mar 2021 #80
My law firm handled a group of asbestos cases from the Charleston naval shipyard. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Mar 2021 #82
I couldnt decline in the NG either. Since when did the military start giving a CHOICE? oldsoftie Mar 2021 #28
2005 - Doe vs Rumsfeld womanofthehills Mar 2021 #78
I was a Hospital Corpsman in the Coast Guard Rural_Progressive Mar 2021 #31
This message was self-deleted by its author jimfields33 Mar 2021 #3
In WW II when you went into basic training you got "your shots." End of story Botany Mar 2021 #5
Maybe if the government didn't invent drugs like LSD and test them on soldiers Calista241 Mar 2021 #8
The "government" didn't invent LSD OnlinePoker Mar 2021 #40
What Historical Experimenting RobinA Mar 2021 #44
here's one example Orangepeel Mar 2021 #62
It was that way in the 80's as well Major Nikon Mar 2021 #19
Leaders could also hit you and curse you out jimfields33 Mar 2021 #27
Yeah, hitting you is the same as requiring a shot. oldsoftie Mar 2021 #29
It means they aren't necessarily yes types jimfields33 Mar 2021 #30
My Marine friend laughed at that when I just asked him Polybius Mar 2021 #57
Yes. If you were in the armed forces, you didn't have a choice JohnSJ Mar 2021 #34
Is it just me, or is that soldier REALLY excited to serve his country? NickB79 Mar 2021 #61
I think maybe the 75 year history of our government performing medical experiments on soldiers, Calista241 Mar 2021 #6
I don't know how the vaccine is optional for the military RAB910 Mar 2021 #18
The vaccines are not FDA approved yet so military cannot force them to get the shots. HUAJIAO Mar 2021 #23
Maybe not so " innocently" being part of the problem... HUAJIAO Mar 2021 #22
Which Part of The Vaccines are NOT.... LovingA2andMI Mar 2021 #25
Some musclecar6 Mar 2021 #26
So is the Mayor of Detroit who is refusing JNJ vaccines for his city, only Moderna and Pfizer JohnSJ Mar 2021 #32
Are these the same military members wearing the QAnon BlueIdaho Mar 2021 #33
I wonder how many of them are QANON types? JohnSJ Mar 2021 #35
It should be mandatory for every state, local, and federal employee MichMan Mar 2021 #37
There's no reason for anyone to opt out of the vaccine Dopers_Greed Mar 2021 #38
Covid Vaccines are NOT FDA Approved. James48 Mar 2021 #47
Seriously, this should not be optional. Make it mandatory. Initech Mar 2021 #48
that's interesting barbtries Mar 2021 #51
They won't mandate it because it's under EUA madville Mar 2021 #70
Dr Fauci has such a gentle way of transmitting brutal facts.... Hekate Mar 2021 #54
Maybe the military can't force members to get a vaccine, but they have ways ... JustABozoOnThisBus Mar 2021 #58
Just think of how easy it will be to note probable RWer insurectionists from a list of anti-vaxers. marble falls Mar 2021 #60
Weird. RotorHead Mar 2021 #67
Equating the Covid vaccine with the Anthrax vaccine? Interesting. mn9driver Mar 2021 #72
The Anthrax vaccine is the reason for "Doe vs Rumsfeld" womanofthehills Mar 2021 #79
It's utterly stunning.... RotorHead Mar 2021 #68
During my 10 years of active duty, I don't recall ever being "asked" whether I wanted a vaccine. mn9driver Mar 2021 #69
There are federal court rulings addressing this very thing madville Mar 2021 #71
Dr. Fauci is corrct. yes. he. is. riversedge Mar 2021 #85
Plenty of rotten apples in our military februari Mar 2021 #87
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