The W. M. Keck Observatory is the only employer that has surprised me during my employment with urine tests for illegal drugs.

I never observed any prescription drugs other than medical oxygen being given to sickened Mauna Kea workers during my time on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea.

I would feel lousy at the Roque De Los Muchachos Observatory in La Palma which was at 7,861 feet, and I would have to take company supplied drugs and oxygen to work at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) in Hawaii at 13,796 feet. In both cases we would rapidly ascend to the summit in two hours or less from near sea level.

Poor performing employees are the expected outcome in workers that are routinely exposed to industrial gas, chemicals, heavy metals, company supplied drugs, high altitudes, mal-acclimatization, Faraday cages, abnormal levels of radiation, industrial LASER’s, dirty electricity, social isolation, extreme night shifts, long daily commutes, and so on.

When I worked at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO), I had been trained to instruct the workers to take the company supplied drugs to do their jobs.

Any worker that takes a job in high altitude astronomy needs to be prepared to lose their mental and physical health, and possibly to develop gender issues.

I suspect that if the long term summit workers of the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) were studied, they would find elevated levels of mental and physical illness, gender dysphoria, disease and premature death that comes from keeping them in an abnormal state of mal-acclimatization.

When in doubt, do the right thing.

I am on the right side of the #WeAreMaunaKea protests.