I am very much aware that I live in an area where anti-vaxers abound but I just want to emphasise that I am not one of them, and to that end I am writing to urge Byron Shire Council to vaccinate Middle Pocket Road against the outbreak of Pothole Pox that is occurring along the road, before it spreads to other roads in the Shire.
This definitely requires the vaccine to be used as there are large lesions (open wounds) breaking out along the road verges and pothole pustules are popping up all along the middle of the road.
I know that the vaccine works, I have witnessed it in action, a quick injection of the vaccine, hot mix, bitumen, or tar (there are different pharmaceutical names for similar vaccines) fixes the problem very quickly and stops it from spreading.
Councillors, this is a wonderful opportunity, with a properly managed vaccination program we can rid Byron Shire of this virus. Let’s start in Middle Pocket and if we treat it like smallpox was treated 40 years ago we could remove Pothole Pox from the world.
It could be ‘Today Middle Pocket – Tomorrow the World.
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