It seems to me since the Presidential election of 2000 America’s moral compass has been turned upside down. The entry about Fint this week is an exact example of that.
Dr. Eden Wells has been awarded Michigan’s top honor for exemplary service in a career in Public Health. The Roy R. Manty Distinguished Service Award is going this year to a State of Michigan cabinet level health officer.
Roy R. Manty worked for 30 years in Michigan rehabilitation of the disabled, he worked with those afflicted with tuberculosis and lung disease. Fifteen of those years were exclusively in public health. The award was named in his honor.
Dr. Wells has been charged with involuntary manslaughter for over a year in the deaths of Fint residents that succumbed to Legionnaires Disease. There is something wrong with a state government that awards some of it’s highest honors to someone who blatantly ignored the pleadings of Flint residents for over a year. Over a year until a pediatrician and a Virginia college professor and his students published irrefutable evidence of poisons in the water Flint residents drank and suffered from and died.
There is something extremely wrong with a cabinet level official to Governor Snyder being handed a coveted award when she did not act to save lives so much as look the other way in a cruel economic strategy handed down to Flint, Michigan.
There is evil at work in the USA and this is another example of it. The American people need to reclaim their moral compass and now.
