The WDT's political scribe is outraged over other people's outrage over those playground regulations...Brian Amaral says the media kerfuffle over the NYS Health Department proposed regulations labeling games like tag and kickball as dangerous is misplaced...He says those expressing outrage didn't get their facts straight.
Yes it did come off sounding like Red Rover was being outlawed by pointy head bureacrats and that is not exactly the case....
This story bubbled up first here when Black River officials leaked the memo to talk radio and local politicians jumped on.....Senator Patty Ritchie got it....This is nanny state governence even though I know it started as a law that passed easily. Senator Ritchie distilled the issue to its purest form...Her colleague, Assemblyman Russell jumped on the issue too, but tried to policy wonk it...She tried to nuance it and lawyer it...
This is a visceral issue, not a debating class...
Senator Ritchie played the politics right and sent the message to the faceless bureaucrats we too often pay allegiance to.
I apprediate Brian's desire to outline the facts...but by the time he did so the emotions had run their course and the regulations were dropped....
In the modern age it doesn't take long for a kerfuffle to unfold on the Internet.
Watertown Daily Times If you're gonna be outraged, get the facts right
6 comments:
The specifics of this don't matter this is a matter of government saying what are kids can and can't do. And Patty said they can play like kids.
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You are being too generous.
The law is stupid and undefined.
The bureaucrats defined it...stupidly.
Patty put a stop to it.
And to brush this rule off as reasonable is something only a liberal reporter would do:
First of all, the fact is that the law didn't say you need a nurse present. It said you need emergency medical staff on call — say, giving the volunteer fire department a head's up that you've got a bunch of kids around.
"nine one one whats your emergency"
"I got a bunch of kids around and am about to play tag"
4:35; you summed up the stupidity of our gov't. I couldn't say it any better.
435 - that's a bit extreme. Every event organizer worth their salt knows to call ahead to the local sheriff or fire department and give a courtesy heads-up. Calling 911 and calling the office are two completely different things and that is what Brian was trying to say in his post. Its a silly law, but never as silly as politicians like Patty make them out to be - its called grandstanding and that's all.
Next topic...what's the unemployment rate in Oswego, Jefferson and St. Lawrence Counties? That's what we should be talking about.
7:46 knows Patty did what all of us would like to do, slap the dumbasses in Albany. And he wants desperately to change the subject. We understand your fears. It is not a "silly" law, it is absolute foolishness. Just the kind of thing we get when people like you mindlessly support government in all its glory. Again 7:46, the reason we have such unemployment in NYS is because we have spent and taxed to a point of no return. With your hatred and fear of Patty, I'm guessing you're one of the party liners who made it all possible.
Hatred and fear, I didn't get any of that from 746s post 936...little defensive, no?
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