Readers pontificate on power sickness, kill shelters and Ye’s anti-Semitism

Staten Island: Voicer Maria Sinclair bemoaned the piddling quantity given to her for her critical diseases from her time at Floor Zero. She’s not alone. It appears the Sept. 11 Sufferer Compensation Fund prioritized funds for these very same illnesses to cops and firefighters whereas merely crapping on all others.

These illnesses proceed to plague me each day, together with my pores and skin most cancers now returning, but the VCF reductions them as minor — in you and me, that’s. I personally know firefighters who obtained 4 occasions what I used to be given for the very same diseases. The FDNY, to its eternal credit score, arrange an ideal program for them with counseling, therapy and a push for honest payouts.

However why is one particular person’s sickness in some way price greater than one other’s? I confirmed up and began digging, ultimately being the one man prepared to dump buckets into piles to be scooped up off West St. by front-end loaders. At one level, I had eleven buckets that had come down with a warning: “Physique elements.”

We’ve been instructed we are actually susceptible to dementia. Regardless of me telling docs for at the very least three years that I’m experiencing alarming cognition points, I’ve obtained no steerage, nor have I been approached about doable remedies. My lungs bled for 3 years, with me dragging a bucket round at work to spit contemporary blood into each day. Guys at work known as me disgusting. I received nothing for my lung scarring nor for the three years of bleeding.

What number of others are going via this? Tom McGuire

Rockaway Park: I want to congratulate Alexa D’Angelo on her well-written article describing the pitfalls of Medicare Benefit plans (”Millennials can save Medicare,” op-ed, Dec. 2). As a veteran of 37 years of major care medication in a small workplace setting, my employees and I had tons of expertise coping with these plans. Her evaluation is spot-on. It’s nothing in need of felony for NYC to maintain making an attempt to foist such insufficient medical protection on its retirees, most of whom served town with dignity and honor and who deserve higher. Peter Galvin

Danbury, Conn.: You might have loads of points with errors and sleep-walking editors not catching gaping errors in your paper which can be much more egregious, so this will likely appear nitpicky in comparison with the remainder, however in “He had a superb coronary heart” (Dec. 3), you referred to Frank Vallelonga as going to the Oscars the evening “Inexperienced Ebook” received for finest film (it’s finest image), finest screenplay (it’s finest tailored screenplay) and “finest actor” for Mahershala Ali, who truly received for finest supporting actor. His co-star, Viggo Mortensen, was nominated for finest actor and misplaced to Rami Malek for “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Michael Eddy

Recent Meadows: In September, I visited Paris with my household. Whereas there, we got here throughout a storefront that made an look within the film “Ratatouille.” Displayed in its home windows are taxidermied useless rats in traps. I’ve a suggestion for the mayor: Being that he’s making his rounds, researching and studying, he ought to go to this retailer in Paris. For positive, this sight would assist scare the rats out of New York. Simply saying. H. Manuel DaSilva

Manhattan: How silly does Mayor Adams assume we’re? Rats are NYC’s “actual enemy”? Has the mayor learn the papers not too long ago? It’s not rats which can be robbing, assaulting, raping and tossing harmless residents in entrance of trains, and so on. It’s individuals, Mayor Adams. It’s criminals. Adams figures he’ll throw up a smokescreen to direct our consideration elsewhere so we received’t discover how completely ineffective he’s been for making our streets secure to stroll down and our subways secure to experience as soon as once more. Grace Luntz

Manhattan: It’s gone time to teach our leaders: Get cruelty off the desk! Whether or not it’s rats, carriage horses or the hundreds of harmless, deserted however wholesome/treatable/adoptable pets who’re being killed by the taxpayer-supported Animal Care Facilities of NYC, animal lovers, voters and taxpayers object! There’s a whole absence of imaginative and prescient, dedication and ethical management in our damaged and failed shelter system, the place increasingly more lives are more and more snuffed out every week. Animals are routinely killed for being fearful, withdrawn, “not thriving” (no shock there) or falling ailing. This can be a blight on our metropolis. The place is our mayor? He’s been trotting round in Greece for a mayors’ convention, and from there going to the World Cup in Qatar (on our dime?), whereas these sanctioned and unchallenged killings go on and horses drop useless on our streets. All this on his watch! Zelda Penzel

Bronx: Lastly, somebody who acknowledges the absurdity of the “faculty zone” digicam at Veterans Park in Throggs Neck. Thanks, Voicer Invoice Reddan. I received two $50 fines earlier than I might even establish the college this digicam was defending. Invoice is correct, there’s fencing and eight lanes of main freeway with guardrails between the college and the digicam zone. There isn’t even an overpass the place college students might simply cross to the alternative aspect of the highway the place the digicam is situated. I known as 311 to get information concerning the location of this digicam and I put in a criticism however, after all, nobody might reply my questions or do something to handle this ripoff. That is only a money-making rip-off by our metropolis. Carol Webb

Westwood, N.J.: To Mr. Ye: When you’re informing us of the constructive values of Hitler and mates, right here’s some extra info: Round 300,000 American troops died combating towards these values that you just defend. Strive studying an precise historical past guide earlier than you shame actual patriots. Robert Koch

Kearny, N.J.: TV anchors and reporters, please cease giving Ye double publicity by referring to him as Ye after which saying “previously generally known as Kanye West.” He modified his identify. He desires to be known as Ye, let’s respect that — two extra letters to go and hopefully he’ll disappear without end! Kevin Dale

Yorktown Heights, N.Y.: So Donald Trump has dinner with a deranged entertainer, a conservative gadfly and a 20-something wannabe Hitler and it’s portrayed as some modern-day Wannsee Convention (the place the Nazis deliberate the Ultimate Answer, for all you non-historians). President Biden eulogies Sen. Robert Byrd, the KKK’s exalted cyclops, however that doesn’t matter. Obama repeatedly had Father Michael Pfleger, a viciously anti-American priest, who has not too long ago been stripped of his ministry for a number of little one molestation expenses, sitting in his Chicago parlor. To not point out Louis Farrakhan, whose Jew-hating screeds make this punk Nick Fuentes appear relatively innocuous by comparability. The hypocrisy is astounding. Nobody tells the Donald who to eat with or what to say. Everybody is aware of this. Gabriel Pompe

Beechhurst: Elon Musk’s sensational “Mr. Smith Goes to Twitter” story has been a tricky slog all as a result of he dared to flip over Twitter’s censorship apple cart. After formally taking up that widespread social media public sq. platform, the imperturbable Musk boldly proceeded to extirpate all of the superfluous flotsam accountable for turning Twitter right into a veritable faculty censorship sorority membership. To which I say: Hail to the “Chief Twit.” After all, the White Home and their Massive Tech and Massive Media allies (who’ve notoriously colluded collectively earlier than) have already got their lengthy knives out to kill off that light Caesar for the sin of sticking up free of charge speech. Clearly, these power-hungry Massive Brother sorts need the usA. to look extra like China. James Hyland

Bronx: Pricey MTA: May you please print up to date bus maps with the brand new routes on them? Particularly for the Bronx. Sharan Porper

Riverhead, L.I.: What number of occasions a month do I examine how some mom is telling the Every day Information what a beautiful little one her son was and the way he didn’t need to die for what he did. But for all these many occasions that feedback by a toddler’s mom is printed more often than not there’s not even one remark from the daddy. It’s virtually as if the daddy doesn’t care or nobody is aware of simply who he’s. Thomas W. Smith