On 9/2/05 8:19 AM, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry, but it's NOT being distorted by the media.
Yes it is. There are reporting on the areas they have access to--esp. The
convention center and the Superdome. What you're not seeing is the hospitals
where the people in medical distress are and other such places. How about
the bayous? Where's the footage of the people there?
Keep in mind you have numerous HOSPITALS which lost electricity and some are
completely surrounded by water. In such a situation, these people will take
first priority to people standing around.
>From the perspective of the disaster teams, the largest problems are access
and lack of communication. You also have to consider the basic nature of
triage--the people who are in imminent danger are going to get first
attention and the people standing around who are merely displaced will get
attention when transport arrives and as facilities for them becomes
available. Just because the media is pointing their cameras at a bunch of
people standing around doesn't mean there isn't significant efforts underway
and happening right now. In general, the media isn't in the areas where the
real work is being done.
>
> I'm listening to a tape of the mayor of New
> Orleans being interviewed by phone from last
> night on CNN, cussing a blue streak about what
> is NOT happening.
Maybe he should take more personal and administrative responsibility for the
shortcomings of his own planning and foresight and appropriate response
infrastructure in an area that as recently as two years ago was hit by a
major hurricane.
>
> Somewhere between 15,000 and 50,000 people are
> marooned at the Convention Center in New Orleans
> with no food, no water, no sanitary facilities,
> no medical attention, no INFORMATION. Most of
> them have been there since Wednesday; the media
> has repeatedly reported on their plight. Babies
> and old people and sick people are dying of
> dehydration because they don't even have WATER.
This is not true, they are receiving water and food. The critical people
are/were being lifted out. Remember, the rules of triage apply.
>
> And the head of FEMA last night claimed the feds
> didn't know anything about them.
>
> That is just *criminal* incompetence.
The city of New Orleans and the state of LA should carry the burden in terms
of incompetence. NOLA was and is riddled with corruption.
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