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Boy, the commenters there don't seem to agree with him much.

by Vivtek 16y ago

dpapathanasiou 16y ago
Neither does Yuhei Sato, who is the governor of Fukushima prefecture: "Mr Sato said centres already housing people who had been moved from their homes near the plant did not have enough hot meals and basic necessities such as fuel and medical supplies. "We're lacking everything," he said." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12763273 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12763273
- nialo 16y ago
  These are not necessarily contradictory. Fukushima can quite easily be lacking all of those things because they're stuck on the wrong side of Japan, where more people who don't know how to fix roads or speak Japanese won't help. Similarly, adding more supplies to the piles on the wrong side of the country won't help either. The point here is that the bottleneck is distribution of things that already exist, not getting them to Japan in the first place.
- jarek 16y ago
  You can truck those in from Arkansas, right?
logicalmind 16y ago
Are Patrick's observations a literal case of survivor bias?
- uxp 16y ago
  Patrick also lives 400 km outside of Tokyo, which is then 300 km to the center of Fukushima Prefecture, which is then 80 km away from Miyagi, where the tsunami did the most damage. Thats almost 500 miles (750ish km). He may have felt an earthquake, and a strong one at that, but he did not survive a natural disaster and he certainly is not in the middle of a nuclear disaster. From his perspective, everything is perfectly fine. On August 30th 2005, I moved from Pennsylvania back to my hometown in the West. Hurricane Katrina hit that previous night, and despite the gas bill costing a bit more than I had originally budgeted, as long as I kept the news radio down I was none the wiser as to anything going on down there as I crawled across the country. Patrick, as much as the HN Japanese guy he is, is in the same position I was. He life is a little inconvenienced and it sounds like he is a little busy doing whatever his disaster/emergency related Salaryman job does. That said, I like his perspective, and I think it helps up understand that all of Japan is not sinking or melting. The parts that are though do need our help, and I think it would be good of him to distinguish between where he is being just fine and the North area that certainly is not doing well, even if the situation up there is under control.

Boy, the commenters there don't seem to agree with him much.

by Vivtek 16y ago

Boy, the commenters there don't seem to agree with him much.

Neither does Yuhei Sato, who is the governor of Fukushima prefecture: "Mr Sato said centres already housing people who had been moved from their homes near the plant did not have enough hot meals and basic necessities such as fuel and medical supplies. "We're lacking everything," he said." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12763273 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12763273

nialo 16y ago
These are not necessarily contradictory. Fukushima can quite easily be lacking all of those things because they're stuck on the wrong side of Japan, where more people who don't know how to fix roads or speak Japanese won't help. Similarly, adding more supplies to the piles on the wrong side of the country won't help either. The point here is that the bottleneck is distribution of things that already exist, not getting them to Japan in the first place.
jarek 16y ago
You can truck those in from Arkansas, right?

logicalmind 16y ago

Are Patrick's observations a literal case of survivor bias?

uxp 16y ago
Patrick also lives 400 km outside of Tokyo, which is then 300 km to the center of Fukushima Prefecture, which is then 80 km away from Miyagi, where the tsunami did the most damage. Thats almost 500 miles (750ish km). He may have felt an earthquake, and a strong one at that, but he did not survive a natural disaster and he certainly is not in the middle of a nuclear disaster. From his perspective, everything is perfectly fine. On August 30th 2005, I moved from Pennsylvania back to my hometown in the West. Hurricane Katrina hit that previous night, and despite the gas bill costing a bit more than I had originally budgeted, as long as I kept the news radio down I was none the wiser as to anything going on down there as I crawled across the country. Patrick, as much as the HN Japanese guy he is, is in the same position I was. He life is a little inconvenienced and it sounds like he is a little busy doing whatever his disaster/emergency related Salaryman job does. That said, I like his perspective, and I think it helps up understand that all of Japan is not sinking or melting. The parts that are though do need our help, and I think it would be good of him to distinguish between where he is being just fine and the North area that certainly is not doing well, even if the situation up there is under control.