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> Terrible hurricane? Show up with a massive floating power plant and water treatment facility plus air logistics. The US has a disastrous recent history of fa
by lonelappde 7y ago
> Terrible hurricane? Show up with a massive floating power plant and water treatment facility plus air logistics.
The US has a disastrous recent history of failing to respond to multipld hurricanes with adequate support, from Katrina to Maria.
- nimbius 7y ago>the incredible power of leadership at all levels of government. anyone remember when Mike Pence actually created an HIV epidemic in his state by ignoring the CDC in favour of prayer? :) or when Trump recommended mixing two tentatively researched drugs to combat COVID-19 that could induce fatal arrhythmia? Or Hurricane Katrina? when Bush basically sat on his hands while nearly 2000 people died? C-level leadership is dog-earing their pockets and preparing to shill the government for bailouts, despite buybacks and record profits. Companies like Apple are completely debt free and doing nothing. As an American i feel like the strongest force in this crisis is the teenager at the gas station and the army of people working swing shift at supermarkets for the same garbage wage theyve always earned and no healthcare.
- Waterluvian 7y agoThe people who continue to work the supermarkets definitely are heroes. How can they not be scared?
- beefield 7y agoWhat makes you think they are not scared? Fear is smart and necessary. Keeps you alive. As long as you control the fear and not the other way round.