Financial reality of dengue numbers
Suppose I work for $9 an hour; if there is work. If I think I have dengue I can spend $35 or more for a test to help the Department of Health put a pin in a map, but I would get no treatment.
The advice they might dispense is available for free. Of course, that $35 comes out of my disposable cash flow of … well, I don’t know. After rent and food I don’t have any disposable cash. So I don’t get tested. So we really have only a vague idea how many cases there are.
If DOH is serious about eliminating dengue they need to provide free confidential testing. Would they be so casual if it broke out on Oahu?
Ken Obenski
Kaohe South Kona
Where does our recycling go?
I was at a party New Year’s Eve and overheard a conversation regarding our “recycle” program. One individual was claiming that all the cardboard, glass and miscellaneous recycle bins are taken to the dump and just dumped in a “special” location — in case we come up with a viable plan for recycling.
Any truth to this?
The gentleman claimed to work for the county and no, I didn’t get his name.
Frank Dickinson
Kailua-Kona