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Bruzilla
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I've been watching the frantic media and pundit reports coming out of Myanmar, and I've been wodering if this tragic event isn't a great opportunity to see how resilent human beings are. There have been cyclones and hurricanes for longer than man has been on the planet. How did victims of such earlier events possibly survive without plane loads of emergency supplies and medicines? To accept all these reports is to believe that humans cannot survive such events without massive amounts of support from developed countries. I wonder how true that really is?
I heard last night that close to another million people will perish from cholera and diahrea in the coming months if the US and others can't get aid in there. This claim is made after every natural disaster, but has it ever actually happened? Was the water and sanitary conditions of these people really that clean before the storm? I doubt it. I'm guessing these folks learned to boil water a long time ago, and have been around nasty stuff long enough to tell the good from the bad.
So I think I'll be watching this whole event with a lot of interest in seeing exactly what your basic Third World country and people can accomplish when left to their own devices.
I heard last night that close to another million people will perish from cholera and diahrea in the coming months if the US and others can't get aid in there. This claim is made after every natural disaster, but has it ever actually happened? Was the water and sanitary conditions of these people really that clean before the storm? I doubt it. I'm guessing these folks learned to boil water a long time ago, and have been around nasty stuff long enough to tell the good from the bad.
So I think I'll be watching this whole event with a lot of interest in seeing exactly what your basic Third World country and people can accomplish when left to their own devices.
