7.0 Quake Hits Haiti

Chants of USA, USA for the L.A. County SAR team rescues a woman


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6.1 'afterquake' hits Haiti

How horrible! I pray these people catch a break here soon.

Sadly, no, they cannot.

The story broke last week, but I wasn't going to post it because, frankly, I don't even want to fucking consider it.

After all the unmitigated horror to already come out of this, the orphans or even just children separated from their families that get picked up can now look forward to a lifetime of slavery.

And it doesn't seem as though anyone is doing anything to stop this, in Haiti or on any coordinated level globally.

My thoughts exactly.

While watching videos and reading the reports about the SAR teams and their efforts to pull survivors from the many collapsed builds, I began to question the value of their efforts. Look at the video above there are about a dozen workers who worked to free one woman. How much time was spent saving her?

Would more people be helped and or kept alive if the man hours were instead applied to distributing food, water, medical supplies, and clearing the roads? Why shouldn't rescue work also be triage? See Wikipedia for an overview of triage

This could deserve it's own thread.

Me too. Disgusting

Both of these posts bring up some good points. We were discussing the Haiti situation in modern topics of international studies class today and somebody brought up the point that while certainly donating money is a very good and helpful thing to do, donating blood and volunteering if you can would most likely be even more helpful. Especially in a few months or a year from now when the news forgets about Haiti.

I've been talking with my local chapter of Habitat for Humanity to see what kinds of groups they'll be organizing. Perhaps we can use this thread to give each other ideas about how to help out.

oh, my.

frolicking in the sun in Jamaica or the Bahamas is okay, though. money spent elsewhere in the Caribbean (or anywhere else in the world that you might take a cruise to besides Haiti) won't, of course, enter Haiti's economy at a time when the country really, really needs money. but that doesn't matter! the important thing, here, is to respect Haiti--by avoiding it like the plague.

Its even more retarded since the linked story indicates Royal Cruise Lines has pledged a million dollars to relief efforts, all of their net profits earned from their Haiti location, & they're assisting in delivering food & clean water.

Also, everyone stop having fun this instant. You can start up again when there are no more poor people anywhere.

DriveThruRPG has a deal right now where you can donate $20 to Haiti through them and they'll hook you up with a huge pile of smaller press tabletop roleplaying supplements (in PDF, as per their standard) - they value it at almost $1,500, but I suspect the actually interesting bits total much less than that. Still.

If you don't want the sourcebooks, they'll match $5 or $10 donations through them.

Edit: The donations go to Doctors without Borders.

All the best intentions don't amount to a hill of beans when people are desperate for money. I hope the tourist money rolls in and I'm sure the travelers are happy to give it knowing it is going to a good cause.