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14 pallets of water, formula and baby wipes collected in JP for Flint
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Difference between Michigan and Massachusetts
In Massachusetts we magically convert our toxic contaminated waterways into train stations called Anderson and Alewife.
It would be better and
It would be better and cheaper to move every resident of Flint to a new city or town with jobs and clean water than try to fix that city. Same for many old rustbelt cities and former mining towns which should be abandoned. Sometimes it doesn't make sense for such places to exist anymore geographically when industry has moved on and the environment is not favorable or healthy.
Good man, Sean !
Good man, Sean !
Baby formula?
Not for naught, but access to baby formula should not have affected by the water quality in the city.
Not spent much time around infants, hmm?
Baby formula is sold in both fluid and powder form, and has been for ever. The powder type is generally much more economical and has a longer shelf life.
I'm looking at my formula fed kid now
Ah, the days of mixing. Is 6 oz too much or too little.
The powder bought in Flint is the same as the powder bought in Detriot, and they are both the same as the powder bought in Bloomfield. The issue in Flint is with the water added to the powder. If I found out that the water we added to Waquiot Jr's formula was full of lead, I'd be tracking down the names of the people responsible. Flint needs water. It doesn't need formula or wipes any more than it needed them 10 years ago, when the water was unleaded.
Just speculating here...
Maybe people will come for the free wipes and formula and will take some water too. I believe they want to get accurate counts of the babies and children that have been using municipal water so they can predicate how bad the lead-related health problems will be.
Efficiency? Environmental impact? Sanity?
How many pallets of that stuff could you buy locally in Michigan for what it's going to cost to ship it there from Boston? How about the environmental impact of re-shipping a lot of retail consumer goods that were originally shipped to Boston from distribution centers in the midwest, back to the midwest?
I understand that by offering concrete, tangible opportunities (such as, at the supermarket, "here, buy this bag of groceries and put it in that pile there and it will be distributed to the needy," you can get the attention of donors you would otherwise lose, but, from a logistics standpoint, it's an insane waste of resources.