Consider me boggled.

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Okay, watching the SBS international news, and the Katrina aftermath footage. Particularly the stuff about people dying of dehydration and heatstroke in the streets. Can I just say one thing?

What the fuck is the government doing in terms of disaster relief? Bloody hell, after the tsunamis in December there was relief on its way within 24 hours. It's been three bloody days!

And just why aren't they evacuating people from the place and getting them to places they can get help? Oh, there's buses going out, but when you have thousands of people to move, you need more than 70 Greyhounds, people.

You see this stuff in Third World countries. You certainly don't expect it in the jewel of developed nations.

Disclaimer: I'm not aiming this at the American people as a whole, or even the various aid relief organisations like the Red Cross, although I didn't see much in the way of footage there. It's pretty much aimed at thhe government, whose job it is to deal with this sort of thing. Ye gods, Bush doesn't have the slightest clue, does he?

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People who are still in the danger zone don't need food and medicine, they need to get their asses OUT of there to where the food and medicine is.

Yeah, but if you want to keep them healthy until you can get them out of there, then they *need* food, CLEAN water and medicine. Say you're an insuline dependant diabetic, say you're on heavy duty anti depressants, or shit, can't even find anticeptic cream, what are you supposed to do when they run out? Getting people out of the city is clearly taking some time. Keeping the people that are still in the city healthy while you get them out seems to be pretty fucking important because you'll have even more problems on your hands after if you don't.

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Which would be easy to do, except that the anarchists with the guns have cut off supplies, or indiscriminate looters took everything they could grab. And the rest of the populace there are allowing themselves to be victims. I mean, the atrocities happening in the shelters themselves, and everyone LET IT HAPPEN. It's chaos, it's people discarding the rules of society because things have gotten difficult. And THAT is what disgusts me most about the whole thing.