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May 8, 1998
During an assembly at St. James school in Bernards Township, NJ on May 5, a young woman succumbed to the vapors. As panicked children screamed of toxic fumes, an attack of the vapors felled a second girl. The school was hastily evacuated as police, first aid squads, and hazmat units careened towards the scene, and ambulances sped 18 children away.
Fortunately no one died in a stampede and no serious accidents occurred despite the many emergency units racing around with all stops out. We got lucky. But the next incident may turn tragic, and we must hold our elected officials, media, and schools culpable for the potentially lethal nature of today's attacks of the vapors.
Every reader of history books and romantic novels knows that young women have suffered the vapors for generations to no serious consequence. With tight corsets no longer the norm, the vapors should be a triviality these days. But instead they've become life threatening as these groups irresponsibly program our children into chemical paranoia.
A girl fainted, that's all, she fainted. Exhaustive studies by the authorities determined that there were absolutely no dangerous fumes present. But when children see a simple incident of fainting, and immediately succumb to panic, convinced that they are being overtaken by toxic fumes, the situation is poisonous. When chemical phobia has been been so pervasively programmed into them that 18 require hospitalization for their "symptoms", the ingredients are there for a deadly stampede or a horrible crash.
The school officials should be on the hot seat today -- re-learning the traditional wisdom of "Chicken Little" and "The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf" -- not back to panic-mongering, programming our children to be anti-industry, damn the consequences.
Yet who of those who mindlessly bleat that "it's all about the children", have allowed themselves to learn anything from the peril their policy throws children into? Sorry kids, demonizing industry is more important than the safety of a few brats.
