Consider me boggled.
Sep. 2nd, 2005 06:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deathpixieOkay, 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?
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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Date: 2005-09-03 10:19 am (UTC)Personally, I'd say that swimming in swamp/sea water full of petrol, oil, chemicals, raw sewage and dead bodies is a sign of more balls than brains. Particularly if you have any broken skin, like all those people probably do. Gangrene just isn't sexy. Nor is diarrhoea or copious vomiting. They're also not likely to increase your chances of survival when there's no clean drinking water. And since neither boiling or crude distilation are going to remove the petrol, that's still going to be an issue.