06-03-2016, 12:40 PM
I live 30 miles from the geothermal plant so don't think I'm britching and beating a dead horse here. What I do know is that on at least three occasions in the past 12 years I have had a long term, unexplained cough which lasted for a number of months. Numerous trips to doctors, more chest xrays than I can easily remember right now and no diagnosis. I recently asked a pulmonologist from Kaiser if there have been any studies on adults here in the Puna district and chronic coughs and his lame excuse for saying, "No", was due to lack of funds!
Somehow it feels like if this volcano was on Oahu there would be massive studies with truckloads of data. Truth is truth.
Google isn't gospel truth but a simple search is a very eye opening experience. Whether one believes the science or not all I need do is look in my collection of medicines (I hate medicine more than my feeble words can express!) to tell me the truth of living within 10 miles of a live volcano. I realize B&B owners and others have a ve$ted interest and I get that; however demonizing or minimizing the realities of this paradoxical paradise don't make the realities any less harsh or real. It is just an ironic tradeoff that those of us who stay here are apparently willing to tolerate.
Somehow it feels like if this volcano was on Oahu there would be massive studies with truckloads of data. Truth is truth.
Google isn't gospel truth but a simple search is a very eye opening experience. Whether one believes the science or not all I need do is look in my collection of medicines (I hate medicine more than my feeble words can express!) to tell me the truth of living within 10 miles of a live volcano. I realize B&B owners and others have a ve$ted interest and I get that; however demonizing or minimizing the realities of this paradoxical paradise don't make the realities any less harsh or real. It is just an ironic tradeoff that those of us who stay here are apparently willing to tolerate.