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| Quake Response | |
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| Topic Started: Jan 14 2010, 11:30 AM (162 Views) | |
| Post #1 Jan 14 2010, 11:30 AM |
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My heart goes out to the quake victims. I am glad to see the US taking a lead role in assisting, as we usually do. What prompted me to post on this was the odd juxtaposition of facts reported about how the people are reacting in Haiti. I hope it is just a coincidence, but I fear that the situation in Haiti is being accurately represented. The news mentioned the bodies in the streets and the potential health threat posed by their not receiving proper care. In the next cut, a reporter was standing near some destroyed stores, talking about how people were searching through the rubble for goods. It is perfectly understandable that, in the aftermath of such a horrific disaster, survival would demand that critical resources such as food, water, and first aid supplies should be retrieved and put to use. However, people were looting the liquor store, and one store owner reported protecting the electronics his store sold with his gun. I hope the some good is going on off-camera, because what the camera is showing is not a people pulling together, helping each other out in a time of crisis, but individuals either looking out for themselves, or, even worse, looking to benefit from the disaster. I would hope that should a disaster strike my community, we'd be taking charge of the situation, not waiting for help to arrive. I'd like to think that we'd make a make-shift morgue and move the bodies, that we'd hunt up supplies and make sure that people who needed them, got them, and that we'd band together and protect the private property of others that didn't need to be commandeered because of the crisis. I don't say any of this in the hope of changing what the unfortunate victims in Haiti are doing. They are already the people they will be when tragedy strikes. I say this hoping that some will think about how they'd react in a tragedy, at a time when we desperately need not to be thinking of ourselves, but how we can be part of the whole, doing what is best for the whole. |
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