Town Dock to offer vaccine clinic for commercial fishermen, employees

July 13, 2021 International News, National, New England

The Town Dock in Narragansett is partnering with the Governor’s Office, the Department of Health, and the Department of Environmental Management to host a vaccine clinic this week. The free, walk-up clinic is for crews of the commercial fishing fleet, as well as employees of shoreside businesses in the Port of Galilee. The clinics will be held Tuesday, July 13 and Wednesday, July 14 from 12-4 p.m at The Town Dock. Clinicians will be administering the single shot J&J vaccine. Coronavirus testing will also be offered at the clinic. >click to read< 07:35

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2 Responses to Town Dock to offer vaccine clinic for commercial fishermen, employees

muddog says:

July 13, 2021 at 12:01 pm

Ivermectin cures covid.

Mouse 1 says to mouse 2, you gonna get the CV-19 jab? No, I’m going to wait until the human trials are over.

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STRIPEDBASSHOLE says:

July 13, 2021 at 1:27 pm

Well you don’t expect them to stop stick it to us now???
DON’T LET THE WIND-FARMS IN OR YOU WON’T EVEN BE ABLE TO KISS YOUR “CHEESE” GOOD BYE!!!

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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