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die,” with a woman, supporting that point of view, writing, “This isn’t an opinion. The vaccine is safe, effective, and the benefits greatly outweigh the risks.”
However, another woman wrote, “Who says they are ‘safe and effective?’ We have only been getting them for a few months! Are they nuts? How do they know? They are not even FDA approved!”, with a fourth woman chiming in that, “People are still getting and passing on COVID even after the vaccine,” claiming there are also cases of lasting side effects from the vaccine.
One man posted a bar graph pertaining to “Reported Deaths by Year, COVID-19 Versus All Other Vaccines,” proclaiming to show years 1990 to 2020 had deaths in the low to mid hundreds, with over 14,000 deaths so far this year. The data, the chart claimed, was compiled from the “CDC’s VAERS.”
“Literally the most harmful vaccine in human history,” the man suggested of the Coronavirus vaccines.
Sunbury, during the township committee meeting, said one of his postings on the emergency management page pointed to the “the tremendous amount of articles out there being cited, documenting the safety of the vaccines.”
“I may have been a little enthusiastic in saying, ‘Look the information is out there,’” Sunbury acknowledged. “But hundreds of millions of people are receiving the vaccines, proving they are safe. It did not leave room for debate, in my opinion. It is time! But I know there are people out there who feel differently, and perhaps I worded that too harshly. But it is frustrating to see this pandemic continuing, and people still having tremendous vaccine hesitancy, not that it is a large portion of the population, but it is still a significant amount.”
Sunbury added that “perhaps a little bit of my frustration was coming out” but he will “strive, as you should in the journalistic industry,” to keep his “opinions out of it and post information.”
Committeewoman Nancy McGinnis then recommended that Sunbury “just take off the comment section so nobody can make a comment,” with Sunbury replying that he would have done so if he “knew how.”
Commenting on the emergency management page was disabled the following day, with Facebook telling users, “Tabernacle Twp. Office of Emergency Mgmt. limited who can comment on this post.”
Sunbury, during an Aug. 23 township committee meeting, noted the township was seeing a “significant uptick in the COVID positivity rate” with “17 positive cases in the past three days.”
“At this point, as emergency management coordinator, I recommend until we get a reduction in numbers back to where we were at the end of June, we cease having in-person, public meetings,” Sunbury said.
Township committee meetings have been held via Zoom since last year – with video of the committee a rarity. The Land Development Board, however, did meet in August, but Sunbury expressed his dissatisfaction with “people not having masks and not maintaining appropriate social distancing” during that session.
“I was extremely uncomfortable with how that meeting progressed,” Sunbury declared. “My recommendation is to utilize the Zoom platform; it seems to be working well.”
Sunbury, who called the “surge” both “real” and “serious,” said he would like to have people not wearing masks, but because of “even breakthrough cases,” he was urging township officials to wear masks and practice social distancing “when interacting with the public.”
“I can only follow the science and CDC recommendations,” he said in reference to vaccine booster shots.
McGinnis, however, during that same August township committee meeting, urged her colleagues to sign on to her “letter to the governor” requesting the “lifting” of an executive order requiring masking in schools.
She pointed out in the letter that “less than 10 percent of COVID cases have been amongst children ages 5 to 17 years old,” and while “unfortunate,” only 300 some children between the ages of 0 and 17 have died from COVID. She added that area schools “have been proactive,” including with the purchase of air purifiers and personal protective equipment to “minimize the spread of COVID-19.”
“I am respectfully asking you to repeal the executive order so that children can breathe fresh air and clearly see and hear their teacher’s instructions,” said McGinnis of what she included in the letter.
After McGinnis asked if anyone else on the township committee would like their name on the letter, Sunbury replied, “Sorry, but I see what the governor is doing in line with the CDC’s recommendations and I support his actions at this time.”
Mayor Kim Brown subsequently declared, “I don’t think this is our fight,” but rather one for the schools.
“You have children in the classroom, and the risk is there, unfortunately,” said Brown, with Deputy Mayor Samuel Moore “seconding” what the mayor stated, adding he was taking his concerns directly to the schools instead and it should be a case where they come to the governing body if they need support.
During the all-Republican township committee’s Sept. 27 meeting, Sunbury noted “Tabernacle has had 24 new positive cases” of COVID-19 “during the past five days.”
“So, this thing is still burning through the county, New Jersey and the states of the U.S.,” he declared.
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responsibility.”
That remark prompted resident Carol Bitzberger to ask of officials, “Is Bass River agreeing it is their responsibility to look into this?”
Buzby-Cope replied that Bass River would ask Little Egg Harbor to send over the file on the home “to take a look at it.”
The man maintained “that what really has him upset” is “he can’t get any privacy.” He explained that he applied for a permit from Bass River to have an existing 4-foot, “$10,000 vinyl” fence around his property replaced with one that is 6-feet tall “so I don’t have to look at these clowns,” and “that’s what I did,” but while in the process of putting the new fence up, the “LLC owner” of the neighboring property “text messaged” him “to stop working on the property” and “provide him with a plot plan,” reportedly claiming that the fence was actually part of his property.
The man, in explaining how the LLC owner would know what he is doing, maintained that his “tenants” have “eight cameras on my house.”
“They got them looking into my windows,” the man maintained. “And it is not against the law. Did you know that? You can have a security camera, put on your property, face it into a neighbor’s property and there is nothing you can do about it!”
The man added, “Fine, you want to spy on me, spy on me!” explaining that the tenants were doing it while at work, using an iPhone.
“All I want is some backing from this town to stop this crap from going on!” declared the man, contending that the firm has another project at a former gun club up the road from him, though that one has stopped temporarily.
O’Connor reiterated that officials “would get the file from Little Egg” and investigate the matter further. During the meeting, the man contended the LLC was based in Lakewood.
A check of online records pertaining to the 1,052 square-foot home at issue shows it was built in 1900 and last sold in July 2020 to a Lakewood firm for $62,000. It was last assessed at $151,700.
Phone numbers said to be associated with the firm, according to an online telephone directory, were said to be out of service as of press time. This newspaper could not find a website for the firm, either.
