noodle

I work with a family who has home care nursing and the nurse's mother reportedly went down to help with an orphanage. This part is hearsay... but they said when they got the airport, there were hundreds of pallets of supplies just sitting there because they did not have enough security to escort the supplies into the areas that needed them because the security details were focused on visiting dignitaries. The nurse's mom said that a really nice solider knocked some stuff onto the ground off the pallets for them to deliver because once anything was off the Red Cross property, they couldn't deliver it through the security.

I've heard these types of stories about every disaster that's happened over the years. Human beings tend to take advantage some times when there are "donations" and that just sucks. Corruption will always exist, as will the well-meaning soul that wants to help. You can't just show up with your cape and majik wand and try to scoop up orphans. Proper channels are what try to keep order. Find order in this chaos, and I'll send you the ten bucks. But not the Red Cross.

Sorry to sound so cynical, but it's been a big topic of discussion in my social circles because medical staff are being sent there, away from kids that need help here and they get there and aren't allowed to do anything. They sit around in Miami and eventually come back. The hospitals down there are overflowing and somehow Florida is getting a lot of the brunt and expectation by the rest of the country that we'll take the people that need help, when in actuality, our heathcare already sucks and people can't get what they need. It's a shame, and I don't have any answers either.

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