Greenwich’s Health Department wants that sum returned to its budget next year so it can, among other high-priority tasks, organize a public forum on swine flu. Who the hell goes to these public forums anyway? People want to get scared, they can turn on their TV and catch all the fear-mongering they need, free, broadcast from Washington.
The two-person Community Health Planning Office was closed June 30. Its budget was $168,450, which included $166,000 for salaries. The office organized events, such as health fairs, and also took the lead in developing the department’s pandemic, bioterrorism and smallpox response plans
Health fairs? Smallpox response plans? These are bureaucrats in search of ways to spend money. Now they wanna draft an ebola virus response plan, I’m right there with them.
