Costco needs to step up food testing
Costco recalled its 3-Berry Blend, dated February 2020- May 2020. Those bags were eaten long ago! The current bag in my freezer shows they are good until September 2020.
I obviously ate those tainted berries months ago!
Unfortunately, I was sick with a very bad “flu” for 10 days, the end of February and just days ago, I received a voicemail from Costco, showing that I was a customer of those berries. No coincidence here, as I had my yearly flu vaccine and now know those berries were at fault. All of my symptoms except for jaundice were the same as for hepatitis A.
Your article states that “Costco has no product in its current inventory.” No kidding! Do people hoard them in their freezer? Hardly. People eat what they buy!
I paid for a hepatitis A vaccine from my pharmacy and now have to get another in six months. Is Costco responsible for those vaccines? In reading, I found that in 2013 there was a similar episode with other berry mixes. I’m beginning to wonder if Costco needs to step up its testing before this happens again.
Why wait until people are showing symptoms? Another class action lawsuit in the waiting? Perhaps testing foods before sending out for consumption might be recommended?
Mona Peck
Waikoloa
Power to tax a true horror show
It is easier to kill a vampire than to get rid of a bad government program. Vampires drink blood. Bad government programs suck money. A recent example was when our Hawaii County Council was mesmerized into approving $47 million to build two wastewater lagoons for 300 houses in Pahala and Naalehu.
The projects will take more money at the next bite, but the result will be the mayor’s pride: “Creatures From the Green Lagoons.”
At first the lagoons will only be damp enough to attract feral pigs, but the green politicians lurking within will want more money. The lagoons will be the breeding grounds from which more government institutions will hatch. Future horror movies will be a homeless camp, a private prison, a drug treatment facility, a detention center … anything to suck more tax money from the 200,000 victims on the Big Island.
The most powerful economic force in the world is the government’s ability to tax its citizens. Bad programs are an abuse of that power.
Jerry Warren
Naalehu
Churches could help homeless problem
I see that a lot of the locals want to do something about the homeless population on this island. I have an idea, but maybe it won’t sit too well with some of the residents.
Why don’t the churches in town open up their doors to the homeless 24 hours a day? Then they can feed or provide clothing and other essential needs to those less fortunate all hours of the day and night. But then again, maybe the religious folks want no part of “help thy neighbor” as stated in the good book.
Can you imagine how the homeless individuals would change when instead of congregating along Alii Drive, they would move into the churches along the way?
Michael Last
Naalehu