Lyme disease ignored by JoCoParks' Bambi Plan

Reporter Jim Sullinger's video of Deer in Shawnee Mission Park:
http://videos.kansascity.com/vmix_hosted_apps/p/media?id=4420662

The Deer Plan for June 17:
http://jcprd.com/parks_facilities/pdf/6-8-09%20Staff%20Recommendations%20for%20Deer%20Management%20in%20Greater%20SMP%20Area.pdf

Mr. Devore, 83, who goes every single day, states that the first deer
he EVER spotted in Shawnee Mission Park was in 1980. Therefore, the
PETA activists' claim that the deer were there before the people were,
is false, because Mr. Devore has been to the park every morning for
over 40 years.

He has visited daily since the 60's. He states that there was a
timber wolf in Shawnee Mission Park then, and he saw it personally,
and that a park ranger admitted he shot and killed it.

Now obviously, the ranger shot the wolf to protect the public.

But since the JoCo Park & Rec Dept., the JoCo Health Dept, the Ks.
Dept. of Epidemiology, the KDWP (Ks. Dept. of Wildlife and Parks) and
the national CDC (Center for Disease Control) currently refuse to
report and acknowledge the health challenge posed by deer syphilus,
they are basing their convoluted plans on the social networking of the
Bambi Lobby.

I'm just glad the deer are not using Twitter and Facebook. Their
hooves are too big to type on those Blackberries! And they can't
count to 140 characters.

The misguided do-gooders on the JoCo Parks & Rec board have misread
the problem. We don't just have a deer overpopulation problem, we
have a disease problem. They only want to remove enough deer to
protect the shrubs and the neighbor's landscaping. They use
preposterous measures including "specified social carrying capacity"
and "social considerations". But not MEDICAL AND HEALTH PROTECTION OF
THE PUBLIC!

This cockeyed plan perpetuates the Bambi Lobby. And in fact would
raise your taxes to provide yet another employee, a "deer counter", a
biologist to count the remaining deer.

But if they ever acknowledged that the deer carry syphilus, and are
thus endangering the public, then they would just remove them all,
every year, instead of counting their white tails! Just like that
ranger in the 60's who took out the timber wolf.

You wouldn't need a taxpayer paid Counter if you solved the problem
every year with a population of zero deer carrying syphilis, aka Lyme
disease, (plus bubesia, ehrlychiosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever and
the other lyme-related diseases.)

Lowering the deer population to a "specified social carrying capacity"
only breeds healthier, disease-carrying deer with syphilis.

It is as preposterous as asking an oncologist to just remove part of
your tumor instead of the whole thing. It's like the 70's when
uninformed women used to refuse breast removal from breast cancer--so
they could look cute in their bathing suits.

The Bambi Social Solution is what weak-willed well-meaning volunteers
on a Park Board do when they don't have the courage or the
intellectual curiosity to investigate a major health challenge. They
have been told quietly by the JoCo Board of County
Commissioners--those who appointed them and who actually must run for
re-election soon to just DODGE THE BULLET OF PUBLIC AND MEDICAL
SCRUTINY.

And most importantly, to NOT bring this crucial issue to the BOCC for
a public hearing!!
As long as they can hide this in their current budget, no BOCC hearing
will ever happen.

Just make a nice pleasant plan, reduce the deer population without
pissing off the uninformed public, or the bleeding heart PETA
activists. Just pretend you've solved an inconvenience.

And how about the plan to give the deer meat to the poor? Tainted
meat? Are you kidding me? Carol Ann Ryser, a local lyme-literate MD states,
"The only way to assure the public the syphilis is not still present
in the deer meat is to incinerate it."

Smoking jerky at low temps does not kill the spirochetes.
Simmering deer meat at low temperatures does not kill the spirochetes.
The CDC web site is untruthful, because they have NEVER done any testing on this, and they are not a food kitchen. In fact, they are actively working to SUPRESS reporting of Lyme Disease in the US. Twice in five years, they have upped the requirements. Now the rash (which only 30% of victims even get) must be 4 inches in diameter, not tow or three. And must be observed by a licensed MD in THAT state, not a blood lab out of state that specializes in diagnosing lyme.

EVEN IF it's a LOCAL MD IN JO CO WHO ORDERS THE TEST, THEY CANNOT REPORT IT IF THE RESULTS COME BACK POSITIVE!

THAT is how you hide a disease.

Remember it was the CDC that ignored the AIDS epidemic during the Reagan administration, because they thought it was just a "gay" disease, and thus God's Plan to eliminate homosexuals from the face of the Earth. It wasn't until it "crossed over" in the blood supply to hemophiliacs that AIDS was addressed. Well, we don't test the blood supply for Lyme Disease. It would cost $190, too much per pint.

So now this Jo Co Parks BioDiversity Plan is just as egregious as governmental experiments as the Tuskegee Experiment. (see Wikipedia.) The federal government knowingly gave 399 Negroes syphilis--and then studied them for 40 years, from 1932 to 1972, as they suffered! Medical research without consent.

Move over, Dr. Mengele. Meet your replacement, Mike Meadors, Director
of Johnson County Parks & Recreation. He removed posted warnings at
the dog park about lyme and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever--based on his
personal opinions, and NO medical research.

This time, the Johnson County Board of County Commissioners, and their
hand-picked naive Board of Parks & Recreation, is proposing to play
Russian roulette with the brains of the poor. It's their Tuskegee
Experiment for frolicking happy white folk at Shawnee Mission Park.

I say, make the Commissioners eat the tainted deer meat.
And let Mikey eat it!

I score this crazy insufficient plan: 1 for the shrubery, 0 for the
public safety.

Please attend the Wed. June 17 JoCo park board hearing at 7pm.
The meeting will begin at 7:00 p.m. and will be held in the gymnasium
of the Lenexa National Guard Armory at 18200 W. 87th Street Parkway,
just east of the 3 & 2 baseball complex. For your convenience, a copy
of staff’s recommendations will be posted on the Resource Management
page of the District’s website at www.jcprd.com.