Free diabetes
retinal screening at
Eye Care Unlimited
BRONX TIMES REPORTER, S 38 EPTEMBER 20-26, 2019 BTR
Action
Association
Now through Diabetes
Awareness Month of November
30, Eye Care Unlimited
will be running free
diabetes retinal screenings
for patients with Diabetes
to rule out eye disease.
One in four adults in
the U.S. has diabetes and
a third of them don’t know
it.
Dr AJ Contento of Eye
Care Unlimited says, “As a
doctor of optometry, we are
in the best position to detect
signs of diabetes during
an annual eye exam
and manage diabetes-related
eye conditions. We’re
committed to supporting
our community by providing
resources to help you
care for and treat diabetes
related eye disease”
Patients with VSP coverage
who have diabetes
receive a covered-in-full
retinal screening under
the VSP Primary EyeCare
Plan or VSP Diabetic Eyecare
Plus Program—even
if they don’t have diabetic
eye disease.
Since most health plans
don’t cover this service for
individuals without signs
of retinopathy, you don’t
need to coordinate benefi ts
with the patient’s health
plan.
Plus, this service enhances
the patient’s experience
at Eye Care Unlimited
and VSP will
reimburse you up to $39
for the Daytona Optos Optomap
Image.
Call Eye Care Unlimited
at (718) 792-2020 to
make an appointment and
see if you qualify under
your insurance plan.
Restrictions apply so
speak to their insurance
professionals.
As Throggs Neck wraps up
the summer season with Labor
Day parades and fun family activities,
TNCAP continues to
work hard in addressing the
many issues that impact our
youth and families. According
to National Survey on Drug Use
and Health: Trends in Prevalence
of Various Drugs for Ages
12 or older, 2017, past year’s use
of Pain Relievers (opioids) for
ages 12 -17 is 3.10% and for ages
18 - 25 is 7.20%. Opioids are a
class of drugs that include the
illegal drug heroin, synthetic
opioid such as fentanyl and
pain relievers available legally
by prescription such as oxycodone,
Vicodin, codeine, morphine
and others. (NIDA www.
drugabuse.gov)
What can we do as a community?
Spread information
about the dangers of opioids,
including prescription drugs;
enable access to naloxone and
stop addiction at the medicine
cabinet (CADCA.org). Don’t
forget to inform your doctors
about the Opioid Guidelines
when Prescribing!
Look for the postcard which
provides residents with information
on how to protect and
safeguard their families and
dispose old or unused medications;
as well as guidelines for
prescribers to follow. Congratulations
to the Throggs Neck
Pharmacy for taking action by
providing a Drop Box for discarding
medications!.
For treatment and further
information: (888) NYC-WELL
or (877) 8-HOPENY.
BY FRANK VERNUCCIO
Extremism, with its absolutism,
penchant for violence
and intolerance of differing
views, is not desirable,
whether from the left or right.
There are, however, profound
differences in the dangers
posed by the two opposing
sides, and in the way they are
treated by key sources.
Right wing extremism is
a fringe movement largely rejected
by conservatives, Republicans,
and others on the
right. Left wing extremism
has become the heart and soul
of the Progressive movement,
supported by a number of
key leaders of the Democratic
Party, academia, and some of
the media.
Far rightists are generally
ostracized by the GOP, conservative
donors and related
organizations. Their counterparts
on the left are well supported,
feted even.
Extremists on the right are
(correctly) criticized without
penalty. However, individuals
and organizations which point
out the dangers of leftists
are irrationally and falsely
branded as racists, fascists, as
well as just about any other epithet
imaginable.
Universities and news outlets
bend over backwards in
attempts to portray left wing
extremists in the best possible
light. When a particularly
outrageous act is committed,
great pains are taken to say
the perpetrator is a loner, not
a leftist at all, or was responding
to unbearable stimuli.
Any act committed by an individual
who has the remotest
inclination to agree with conservatives
is imputed to be the
liability of everyone on that
side of the ideological divide.
Coverage of even the most
serious acts committed by a
Progressive perpetrator fairly
quickly leave the news cycle.
Consider how rapidly the
horrendous attempt at the
mass assassination of Republican
congressmen at a baseball
practice, in which four individuals
were shot, the most serious
being Rep. Steve Scalise.
(R-Louisiana) left the news cycle.
Consider how differently
the incident would have been
treated if the victims had been
leftist Democrats.
Academia and the media
have muddied the discourse
by portraying the most heinous
historic left-wing extremists
as rightists. When the Soviet
Union was falling, the
Communist old guard were
referred to by media sources
as “conservatives.” Hitler’s
horrible National Socialists
are only referred to as Nazis,
to cover up their left- wing reality.
Indeed, the Antisemitism
that characterizes socialists
from Hitler to the Soviet
Union to Democrats Rasida
Talib, Illian Omar and former
DNC vice chair and current
Minnesota attorney general
Keith Ellison remains largely
unspoken, as does the barely
concealed Antisemitism of
the “BDS” (boycott, disinvestment,
sanction) movement so
popular on the Left, particularly
within universities. Little
has ever been discussed
about the Obama Administrations’
inexplicable tilt towards
Iran, and its attempts to alienate
America from Israel.
Biased Progressive history
books dwell on every American
fl aw, incorrectly asserted
to be the result of conservative
thinking, even though those
errors have been long rectifi
ed. However, they scrupulously
overlook the hundred
million murders, economic
disasters, and terrible oppression
committed by extreme
left-wing governments over
the past 100 years, and ongoing
still. It’s barely mentioned that
Democrats have been the party
of slavery and segregation.
The refusal to acknowledge
left wing extremism can
be discerned in Hollywood’s
Progressive popular entertainment
venues. There is a
common plot in many television
dramas. A horrible crime
or act of terror is committed,
and all indications point to a
left-wing extremist group. But
in the fi nal moments, the real
culprit is exposed to be a rightwing
businessman or conservative
politician.
Antifa, the left-wing
masked stormtroopers who
have a penchant for street rioting,
property damage, and
physical assaults, have received
protected status within
their key arena, Portland, Oregon.
The mayor of that city
has encouraged the police to
essentially stand down and
surrender the streets to them
during their outbreaks. Nothing
was done when journalist
Andy Ngo was beaten so severely
by an Antifa mob that
he required hospitalization.
The response to this and
Antifa’s other outrages? As reported
by the Daily Wire:
“Democrat Rep. Debra Haaland
(D-NM) proclaimed that
far-left extremist group Antifa
consists of ‘peaceful protesters’
who are just trying to
protect Portland from “domestic
terrorism.”
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