Readers sound off on global health partnerships, fare increases and pollution mitigation

Help cuts will let deadly diseases run

Ridgewood, NJ: I spent a career working for organizations that implement rescue programs in Africa, largely made by the United States. Recently, I heard a small community organization that I know in Kampala, Uganda. Their email said: “The United States Embassy has interrupted a promised subsidy of $ 10,000 for their HIV / AIDS programs to the directive of President Donald Trump.” My heart breaks for children, mothers and fathers who lose the life buoy on which they depend.

No one should die from avoidable disease, especially when we have the tools to stop it. It is appalling that the United States is moving away from our inheritance of global health support, including the support of the Global Fund to combat AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

The Global Fund reflects the best of what American leadership can look like: intelligent, wild of life and founded in partnership. Thanks to partnerships like the Global Fund, we have good the tools and resources necessary to put an end to these diseases. But American support is essential for this to happen. Looking away from global health partnerships is not only short -sighted is deadly. It is estimated that 25 million people will die unnecessarily over the next 15 years because of the United States withdrawing from our global health commitments.

I exhort my members of the congress to fight for complete American funding for the Global Fund and to maintain our smart and high impact investment by committing $ 1 for each $ 2 promised from other donor countries. In doing so, we can be part of a historic moment to end the preventable death of these diseases for good. Barbara Charbonnet

Shadow force

Nutley, NJ: Who are these ice agents? Why the masks? Why not identity? Why not mandates? Why the secret? Even in Nazi Germany, they did not wear masks. What could the Trump administration hide? Elaine Bucino

Different standards

Forest Hills: Recently, I heard a comment from one senator on another on one question, saying that his behavior was “inadmissible”. I found myself thinking: “According to the standards of whom?” What if this person did not see him in this way and felt what he thought and was doing was not bad? These two men have seen the world differently, and good and evil are different. The pain of others really does not matter because some people are disposable. I remember a recent audience with our defense secretary when asked: “Don’t you think …?” And he said no, which completely exasperated the senator. I found myself laughing because the dry was really believed that what he had said and was not wrong. No escape, just a completely different feeling of what is acceptable. There must be times when the Venn diagram is overlapping. What do you do when it is not the case? Stew

Voices will be heard

Manhattan: Close the public broadcasting company, which exercised the 1960s, place another brand on the already horrible face of this administration. Is it because the stations supported lean to unfavorable to the political and social opinions of the current administration. But these stations are more than useful for the communities they serve. So much for these well -rounded points of view and useful information that we all need and some may not have enough. However, do not think that this is the end of the broadcast. Let me reintroduce the “pirate radio”. It would not be the first time that voices have been reduced to silence and not the first time that small community stations have appeared. You can look online to get the details. You may not get the range, but there are many openings on AM frequencies little used for local broadcasting. Don Cerrone

No warning?

Staten Island: I am interested in knowing if someone saw that the shooter did not hide his weapon approaching the building (“23 shots pulled in the hall, 24 on the 33rd floor of Park Ave. Slay Building”, August 2). I cannot understand that no one saw him carry his weapon. If perhaps that a person had seen it and phoned the police, the carnage may not have happened. Jeffrey Van Pelt

Higher and higher

Middle Village: I hope someone can help me understand this. Six months ago, the MTA started the price of congestion, which is expected to raise $ 500 million this year, all drivers do not use trains or bus. But it is not enough. Now the MTA increases its prices by 3%. And the tolls, paid by those who do not use the service, increase 7.5%, more than double this amount. How is it right? Lee Rottenberg

Constant problems

Forest Hills: The MTA has indifference without haste and has completely failed us with regard to the metro. They will say that Tuesday and Wednesday were extreme, but this is not the case. These failures occur daily at various degrees on each line. What is worse is bureaucracy and lethargy in innovation or attempt to solve problems. This shows that they do not give a whore in one way or another. What can we do about it? Nothing. It doesn’t matter who runs the system or is governor or mayor. It is his own little life force that fights to do as little as possible. Complain about X or anything as shouting in the sky. I have no solution other than perhaps to start driving more to avoid daily slowdowns and stops for no reason, unintelligible announcements and the demand for empty patience. I was quite patient. Matthew N. Ross

Sacrilege

Flushing: “The Argyle Sweater” Thursday using our Lord and Savior Jesus and the Holy Mother for his joke were offensive. This pushed me to cancel my Daily News subscription, and apologies should be written in a next “Argyle heel”. Joe Marino

Albany must act

Whitstone: Reverser 16 years of regulation responsible for the Act on clean air would do a lot of trouble, simple and simple (“Zeldin’s Greenhouse Gasbag”, editorial, July 31). If we do not resist the actions of the Trump regime, we will be more sick with the greatest pollution and warmer summers, at risk of worsening climatic disasters and having much less health care and emergency management financing, while at the same time. Governor Hochul must keep New York’s air and water as clean as in his power. This means that she should not look at Trump and his billionaire friends to allow a huge new gas pipeline in our state. More methane and dirty carbon dioxide is exactly what we don’t need, especially since digging big pipelines through our waterways would reverse the progress we have made to clean them. Hochul must also let go of the cap and investment program. Daniel Salamon

Across the impact

Briarwood: Forget to try to stop global warming. It is too late. Alternatively, resources should be allocated to the preparation of the future which is already there. This includes major changes to our infrastructure in order to compensate for the increase in temperature variability and increased water levels and preparation for human migration that will occur. We have already destroyed our planet as we know it, but humans can and adapt. Mary Elizabeth Ellis

Advantage of leaders

Smithfield, Pennsylvania: I just wanted to say that I hope that the pensioner of the public employees association sticks to his arms and succeeds in not being forced to health insurance of the plans, by which insurers take advantage of the insured. The “advantage” is all on the side of insurers. It is a scam funded by the State. In exchange for “zero bonuses”, insurers strengthen the system, redirect money to enormous wages for their CEOs and other staff and investors, limit medical care and charge copays that seem small when the insured is healthy but costs very expensive when it comes to poor health and needs frequent visits, such as physiotherapy. When I retired, my cousin (an investment official) opened my eyes to the fact that the advantage is not a medication, and once you have withdrawn from medication, you may not be able to recover, because you can be subject to restrictions based on previous conditions or other factors. Mary Terry

Suspicious circumstances

Cincinnati: How do we know that Virginia Giuffre committed suicide? She knew a lot about very important people. This must also be examined. Mark Jessee