Cookiely wrote:Windy wrote:Cookiely wrote:Concerning the crowds at the convention center. I believe that some of this has been hyped by the media. I won't say they are not hot and tired. They may even be hungry, but they are not going without fluids. I saw many many bottles tossed to the ground with water in them, gatorade, and other drinks. If someone is dehydrated they don't have the energy to do all those shenanigans the crowds were exhibiting. Most people aren't geared for any type of suffering anymore (I include myself as far as heat is concerned). Someone posted a wonderful article from a newspaper about one of the hurricanes in the 1800's and the damage incurred. I keep thinking about those people. They sure didn't have any federal response to their dire needs. If I've learned one lesson from this it is that you have to be able to take care of yourself for at least five days until major help can arrive and to put your hurricane kit into a water tight container.
Well, with due respect, I think I'll take the word of the reporters on the ground who are there and trained to observe and report over your snap amateur medical evaluation of 25,000 people based upon seeing half-dozen agitated people over the boob toob.
Or, perhaps you can just trust the mayor of the city when he says that he's there and that there is (was, hopefully, by now) no food and no water for days.
Or maybe you can explain your medical theories to the bodies of the dead babies and elderly currently laid out in the freezer in the convention center.
People can't take suffering? Tell ya what. If you really think that going without food and water for five days while stomping around in human feces (some yours, some not) as people die and people are raped around you, knowing that your home is destroyed and your job is gone and some of your family is missing and there is no relief in sight is something that people should just learn to DEAL with, then I'll drop my argument -- you win.
BTW, are you seriously measuring today's emergency response against the response from the 1800's in order to make a favorable comparison?
I believe the media can spin things the way they want to in a given situation based on their agenda. You see the same piece of film on one looter and think there are five thousand. You show one crying baby that they say is dehydrated when he might actually be colicky from eating too much. I saw a mother pinch her son to make him cry on camera. Why haven't they shown even once the gaurd handing out food and water in the convention center? As for the bodies, they sadden me, but what is more important taking care of the living or dead.
And...what would the *agenda* be here? Viewers? Popularity? Perhaps a book or movie deal? That must be it! This is all a big set up to get something out of it later...damn, I wish I'd figured that out days ago, thanks for setting us all straight.
I won't even bother with a serious reply to your posts as you obviously live on a planet far far away from the majority of humans I know, and communication seems to be a problem. On your planet, I think perhaps there might too much time spent in front of the television making reality and fiction blend into mush.
