Fighter Jet Alley

    The well-coined motto, "History, Heroes, and a Home Town Feeling,"  is a publicity slogan.  Like many of the historical societies which call "DaVille" their home, a group of Fayetteville advocates coined this phrase attempting to personify military life in Cumberland Country.  The Coronavirus pandemic has quelled cultural activity in America.  Any town would have a difficult time expressing its cultural heritage now.  It is prudent to assess other possible assaults on our humanity including physical health.  While Covid 19 is dangerous foe,  other underlying scenarios are contributing to this crisis.  Deaths from Covid have run the gamut of physiology.  Failures of systems have been noted in autopsies.  The lungs are not the only target.  The kidneys, liver, and heart also are being attacked.  When the data from the disease was crunched in a super computer, a simple diagnosis was "leaky blood vessels." Any preexisting infection, fungal, bacterial, or viral are discovered and exacerbated.  Many of those dying from Covid 19  are dying from systemic mycosis, fungal infections which are yet to be discovered and diagnosed.  Global warming is contributing to this phenomenon, because warm moist air promotes the growth of fungi.   Environmental conservation, corporate oversight, and governmental protection are crucial to our health.  Many federal agencies during the Trump presidency were crippled with the appointing of "stooge" leadership, appointees with diametrically opposed values to the agencies with which they were tasked to lead.  Our environment never has been more polluted and industry more unfettered.  The military is no exception.  While BRAC has infused Cumberland County with military dollars, also is has brought with it it's own refuse, pollution which was not here before.  I would like to question the blanketing of our neighborhoods with jet exhaust several times a week.  Above the treeline in  residential neighborhoods, we have become privy to a layer of aircraft exhaust. This layer of smog seems as intended as crop dusting for farmer's fields, but its effect is opposite.  Blanketing Fayetteville neighborhoods in jet exhaust diametrically is opposed to promoting the health of county residents.  In no way will this help the mitigation of a deadly viral pathogen floating in our atmosphere.  Residents of Cumberland County need help, not more environmental obstacles.