Friday, January 12, 2024

Lifted!!!

 The Mississippi State Department of Health lifted the boil water notice for Jackson. 



20 comments:

Anonymous said...

Isn't that interesting?
Seemed to me the people at Jackson Water were " surprised".
Since Dobbs left , I suspected he was unwilling to lose all credibility. Could Tate have replaced him with a "true believer" of any nonsense?

Anonymous said...

They haven't posted the release for Flowood yet. I'm sure its going to hit too.

Anonymous said...

Attention MSDH, crow tastes best with BBQ sauce.

Anonymous said...

@2:57 - Governor Reeves has no authority to replace the State Health Officer (either when that person was Dr. Dobbs or the current one, Dan Edney). The Mississippi State Board of Health makes that appointment. Yes, the Governor appoints the members of the Board, but not the State Health Officer.

Anonymous said...

Thought process required:

1. Where, when and how was the tested sample was acquired?
2. ONLY after contemplating how the sample levels would affect drinking water after going through the first treatment process should any actions take place.

IF the the FIRST action had been to call JXN water with the initial finding raised concerns, NONE of us would have had to be boiling water before drinking or cooking !

Can we do some IQ/competence testing on those who make decisions that affect the rest of us? You don't have to be a genius though to LEARN TO DO YOUR JOB WELL! YOU DO HAVE TO STUDY HOW to do your JOB!

When it comes to HEALTH,trial and error is NOT a GOOD LEARNING PROCESS! 

W. Carter said...

Certainly hope that the people responsible for this outrageous mistake will be fired and the department heads will be terminated as incompetent. Policies and procedures were not followed and the agency heads should have to answer for this. Some coffee shops closed and other businesses lost business. Someone needs to answer for this gross mistake or we will continue to suffer from incompetence

Anonymous said...

Certainly hope that the people responsible for this outrageous mistake will be fired and the department heads will be terminated as incompetent. Policies and procedures were not followed and the agency heads should have to answer for this. Some coffee shops closed and other businesses lost business. Someone needs to answer for this gross mistake or we will continue to suffer from incompetence

Anonymous said...

@4:55pm - do you live in this state? We suffer from incompetence every single day

Anonymous said...

We don't know yet that there was a mistake, or who committed such if there was. Perhaps we'll never know that nor how often we had ecoli/turbidity and were not told.

So drink only bottled or filtered water and eventually Hennifin will fix water and sewer as well as can be.

Anonymous said...

No one in our office even touches the water of Jackson. We use hand sanitizer gel after we go to the potty.

Anonymous said...

This is infuriating. My household is 2 adults and it is a royal Pain in the Ass to boil water or purchase water to be used for drinking, cooking, washing your face...

I really feel for families with young children who have far less money and time for such things, and the few remaining Jackson businesses who are hanging on by a thread.

You expect crap like this from Chowkie and his minions, but you didn't expect it from state agencies... until now.

Thank God for Henifin, I guess he is the only one who has a f-ing clue at this point.

Old doctor said...

Many people die each year in the USA from E. Coli. poisoning. The health department is obligated to be over cautious. It is regrettable that this causes some business disruption. However, they did the right thing. Danny Edney is a very good doctor and super sharp. We are very lucky that he is willing to serve in this capacity. As a colleague that has known and worked with him for almost 40 years, I can testify to his integrity. He could be doing a million other jobs with 1/10000000 the hassle. Thank you Dr Edney!

Anonymous said...

9:54 - Both good and super sharp people, as well as those with high integrity, make mistakes.

Mrs. Eastover said...


A false positive for Ecoli is better than a false negative in my opinion. Yes it appears a mistake was made, but is good to know that the state health department is testing and has a way to notify the public in event of contamination.



Anonymous said...

At least kroger was able to get rid of all the bottled water they had stacked otside before the big freeze.

Bill Dees said...

This kind of incompetence is what you get when you cut taxes to the bone in the name of "Small Government". If Tate gets his way with more tax reductions you can expect the same sort of incompetence across all facets of State government in Mississippi.

Anonymous said...

Kingfish--they just lifted Flowood

Anonymous said...

"The health department is obligated to be over cautious."

Note to Old Doctor: This is not the 1960s when you exercised caution and gave a tetanus injection. This is the day of established protocol and protocol was breached, plain and simple.

I understand that with old age comes the tendency to ignore modern regulations, policies and standards and go with the 'Ima jest do this instead' response.

Anonymous said...

Is 2:57 available for interpretation?

Anonymous said...

@Bill Dees - What the hell has poor judgement got to do with cutting taxes?


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