Comment of the Week: 'Tinges of Negativity' in the Fridley Cancer Cluster Facebook Group

On Tuesday, about the Fridley Cancer Cluster, the media's role (rightly or wrongly) in directing attention toward it and her own feelings about the cancer discussion in Fridley. Here was 's response:

The thought was that things could lead to a more negative reaction, no one has said that there has been mass hysteria. 

I think everyone here agrees we all want answers. 

As for moving forward if we don't think ahead which could be as little as tomorrow then we aren't living. People need to know that there is something to look ahead to, if we all just sit and wait for an answer that may never come what kind of life is that for any of us? 

I care for someone who is terminal ill everyday and as every day is a challenge and a struggle I can only look a short distance ahead but if I don't keep reaching for a better day, a better way what then am I teaching my children? That I can't improve my own environment that I can't change things until I have the answers. Well I don't believe that. 

I still think the Facebook Group is a valuable resource for many people but not me, the only feelings I think that have been expressed here are those of individuals and their own discomfort with some the tinges of negativity here and there and the fear that it could grow. 

Will it? Who knows, I hope not. 

I know cancer a great deal of my family has dealt with it and none of them have lived in Fridley, so I understand the want for answers. 

The question has been asked but I think in the mean time rather then just wait, the questions is what can we do now? Are there people in the community who need help with things right now, that lending a hand is moving forward.