🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:53:41 -0700, wrcowan1@hal-pc.org
wrote:

>> 
>> And your insistance to wait until everything is perfect before doing
>> anything is proof that you haven't got a clue. There are always problems in
>> a relief effort, you solve them as they come up while still providing some
>> kind of help, you don't wait on the sidelines hoping to get all your ducks
>> in a row...it will never happen and you are just wasting time and lives
>> while trying. Don't be so stupid all of your life...
>>
>
>No, I do not say wait until everything is perfect but you can not allow 
>just every joe into the area to help.  

  WHY NOT?  After all, if they can get in and your
agency can't,  why should people have to die waiting
for help?  Do you really care what the paperwork shows
about the person who shows up with their own boat to
take you out of the flood?  Or would you rather wait
for a properly certified boat and operator?

  In an emergency you rely on effectiveness,  not
certifications.  If there are resources available, in a
life and death situation,  you have to deploy them and
hope for the best,  not wait to make sure!  By time you
make sure the people you're rescueing could be dead,
then what does your certifications and paperwork mean?
It means that you are an incompetent fool,  unable to
reason and therefore dangerous.

Obwon
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>There are state and federal 
>agencies that can help and do it well.  If you look back on this 
>situation this operation went well on the federal side of things when 
>you compare it to other Cat 4 or 5 hurricanes.  The Feds responded 
>quicker when compared to Hugo and Andrew (other cat 4 and 5 hurricanes). 
>  The Red Cross counld not do anything since they were blocked by State 
>officials (i,e. troopers snd Guardsmen)
>
>MRC

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