On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 05:36:18 -0500
nightbat wrote:
Ray Vingnutte wrote:
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 04:29:17 -0500
nightbat wrote:
nightbat wrote
"Charles D. Bohne" wrote:
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 03:23:56 -0500, nightbat
wrote:
When questioned most large city officials admitted they have
no plans in place in case large scale mass evacuations are ever
needed.
Just "duck and cover" :-)
Like they told you in the old days of possible nuclear attacks
.....
C.
P.S.: Just wonder where they put all those trillion dollars ...
nightbat
Those were our innocent 50's days and we should be much
more
prepared then that Officer Bohne. With the entire world now
sending
emergency life saving team help and financial aid we need to do
more
then just duck and cover. I can't imagine if New York, Chicago, or
Los
Angeles for instance got catastrophic hit with no mass evacuation
plans
in place. The bulk of the money always seems to get politically
funneled
into pork barrel projects instead of the public health and safety.
The
news being now reported is the various branches of military wants
to
take over the emergency rescue and rebuilding of Gulf Coast area
with
many questions being raised by local and State Officials. With the
whole
Gulf Coast now practically under water and dams potentially
breaking
civil authorities and military are arguing who has authority over
complete disaster areas?
carry on,
the nightbat
Ray
This very likely applies to almost everywhere, had Rita or Katrina
happened here say along the south coast I have every confidence that
nothing would be in place and ready to enact. The same for any major
disaster be it natural or man made. Personally I would rather have
the
military in control of it, politicians are mostly only concerned
with
votes and popularity and corruption.
nightbat
Oh great, so the world waits for disaster then acts. Hmmmm, we
must teach them to be Science Officer proactive not laid back, oh what
happened? And yes, I'm in agreement Officer Ray, in times of National
disaster the military should be permitted to come in and get the job
done.
carry on,
the nightbat
I'm afraid we are all expendable, not worth the cost if you like. Even
here in the UK life is cheap, elderly are left to die in
hospitals(purposefully I believe going by some disgusting undercover
work by reporters in hospitals and care homes) and care homes, the sick
can have a hard time to get medical treatment. Only the other day a
conservative mayor said that disabled children should be left to die,
well actually it was a little worse than that, here's what was actually
said...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_obje...name_page.html
Hope that link wraps ok.
I'm afraid this sort of view is probably not rare, and very likely
applies to general medical healthcare regarding the elderly and the very
sick too.
I don't think you really want politicians calling the shots when it
comes to peoples lives. I can't put forward a solution I'm afraid, other
than to keep politicians well away from this sort of thing and of course
disaster management of any kind.