[DMCForum] Re: Katrina Response
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[DMCForum] Re: Katrina Response
- From: "cruznmd" <racuti1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 01:46:43 -0000
A conspiricy theory everywhere I turn.
I've just received a 72 hour recall notice from my unit. I hope to
be deployed soon. I don't know exactly where.
Rich
--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "therealdmcvegas" <dmcvegas@xxxx>
wrote:
> --- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Bob Brandys <BobB@xxxx> wrote:
> > Ryan,
> >
> > You forget that we are safety and hygiene consultants. We work
with
> > FEMA on an emergency basis. So far, FEMA is looking for no
> > assistance. WHY?
> >
> > BTW is today's Wall Street Journal-yes, a business paper- they
are
> > criticizing the FEMA response.
> >
> > For example, when Florida had their hurricanes FEMA had
truck loads
> > of water, food and ice WAITING BEFORE THE HURRICANE to send in
to help
> > people.
> >
> > For Kartrina---NOTHING.
> <SNIP>
>
> We are not simply "unprepared" for disaster. Especially with the
> example of Florida listed by Bob above. This is on purpose. There
are
> underlying reasons here.
>
> New Orleans is a violent city to begin with, as are some of the
> flooded parishes. Delay response, and you let the bad people die.
> Looting will do no one any good, if they're going to die soon. Get
a
> small cut, and splash some of that sewage water they're treading
in,
> onto and into the wound... Given a long enough time line, the
survival
> rate of everyone left in the city will be 0%.
>
> Now this isn't something that I'm in favor of, but I do believe may
> infact be an alterier motive behind the inaction of FEMA and the
> government. Victims in Florida had allot more tax payers who are
> contributing into the system. Poor people in N.O. are a drain on
the
> system through public assistance programs, as well as police and
city
> services. The ratio of how much they pay into the system, versus
how
> much they take out may very well have contributed to their fate.
>
> And besides, dead men tell no tales, nor file insurance claims. And
> the longer we keep insurance adjustors out of the disater zones,
the
> more money there is to be made on the interest of the money they'll
> have to pay out. Plus, who'll be around to claim said payouts?
>
> Clean up may very well also be easier if we let the alligators,
> snapping turtles, buzzards, flies, and other foul creatures of the
> Mississippi River come into the flooded city, and devour the dead
> naturally. It's a cheaper solution than paying overtime to workers
to
> collect, and incenerate corpses.
>
> I'm just waiting for the CDC to seal off New Orleans and the
> surounding parishes as a Hazardous Waste Zone, to delay rescue
> attempts even further, by only letting selected, and specially
trained
> specialists in, to simply analyze the damage and clean up. And of
> course to keep people both out of, and in the city for a longer
period
> of time...
>
> -Robert
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