Re: Letter to Congress/Petition

[Guest guest]

I think you are referring to the petition, instead of the letter to Congress.

You have a valid point, although I pictured the strong, hard-working coal miners

that used canaries to warn them of dangerous gasses - but they were also made

ill from black lung, which the canaries couldn't foretell. I didn't see it the

way you do, but I can see the potential for that point of view as well.

Unfortunately, the petition cannot be changed once it is public. The reason for

that is the people who have already signed the document would then have their

signatures on a different variation than what they actually signed.

There is an option to have the email address private - available only to me as

administrator if the signer wants information sent, but some have missed that

field I guess. If they don't want email add's available to me, they can choose

that as well. The petition site administrators do require email addresses from

all signers that are kept private, which they only use to verify validity of the

signatures when challenged to do so, and that is done with a random sample

technique - so not everyone would be contacted to verify they actually posted

their signature. Some people are posting their email addresses instead of

choosing the 'private - available to administrator' option, maybe it is

confusing. Also, I only asked for country or state - to show that mold is not

a selective regional problem - but some people are posting there entire

addresses. Again, not what I envisioned happening, but I'd say it is at the

signer's discretion how much they want to reveal.

As far as names, I don't have a problem with people signing 'anonymous' - or I

would be glad to take emailed signatures privately, if having them presented to

Congress along with the public ones isn't an issue for some.

I didn't know about TV shows making fun of mold illness - what ones? That is

awful. The writers, etc. will be sorry when it happens to them or someone they

love.

I often think of the men on the list and though I am not glad for anyone to be

dealing with this, it does help in a weird way to know the illness does not

discriminate and that stereotype cannot be claimed to apply.