[DMCForum] Re: Katrina Response

["Joe OBrien" <joeyoseppijoe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gee, they sent in a special chartered helicopter to rescue Fatts 
Domino, an almost 80 year old man. 

I'm sure his ststus didn't have anything to do with him having a 
private US Guard chopper pick him up.


-Joe



--- 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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