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Originally Posted by Brokinarrow
Oh I completely agree with you, this is EXACTLY what the UN should be used for. Hence the 
As for the gov. not taking action.... as the report was in 2008, there probably wasn't too much time for them to really do anything if they had tried. The most I can see getting done is bringing their hospitals and government buildings up to code. And granted that would definitely help, but even if all the hospitals had stayed standing, they still wouldn't be able to keep up with the huge number of wounded. |
The suggestions made by the guys who turned in the report suggesting buttressing the hospitals and schools to be disaster recovery locations and figuring out disaster communications.
I just thought it was interesting. Not so much that I'm indicting what Haiti failed to do so much as just a reminder that every so often a 'the sky is falling' prediction is accurate. I don't know that it would have stopped anything that already occured, but the people would know where to go so you could centralize the food/water/shelter delivery instead of just wandering the streets.