Posted On: September 24, 2004, 11:13 pm CDT

Posted By: Pat

your article would change is you were personally exposed to Stachybotrys. Why don't you see if one of the experts in the field could expose you to some on a trial. After you get to the point where you can't draw a breath without your lungs screaming and your head feels like it's about to explode and your ears are ringing and you feel like you're as tired as an 80 year old then read this article again. This issue is not a black and white as your article portrays. People truly are getting hurt by bad indoor air at my office. I am currently out of work due to an office that is overridden with mold and stachybotrys is the heaviest amoung them. Because there are no laws regarding indoor air quality in Virginia, employees are not being advised to stay out of the office. Nor are they being educated about mold. They are being led into a false sense of security because they are being told the level of mold in the office is "ok". Most people in the office are sick with flu, sinus infections and one girl is out with double pneumonia. The Stachybotrys count is in the thousands. The overall mold spore count is almost 200,000.
Prove that all the sickness is mold related? No, that's the problem, isn't it. You know what they say - if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck and quacks like a duck... most likely it's a duck. Articles like yours hurt people. Try not to forget you are one. One day you may need a law or some insurance to come to your aid. Right now my WComp is denied and my short term disability can't decide if I'm their responsibility. My mortgage company doesn't care, they just want their money. I am looking for work, but I already have a job - I just can't stay in the building long enough to work it.