Surviving the dead

[the lone gunman]

I dont suppose there is much good Natural water their even in good times.

 

[Thalestin]

saw a documentary on haiti about 6 months ago. was filmed in 1990s in time period when riots were crazy & clinton had to send some troops in.rival factions were killing each other & pigs were eating on dead bodies in the streets.[this was actually filmed]. one gang leader took a coffee can to public water spout.he poured some h2o on himself 'soaped up & then poured remainder of h2o over his head. this is a bath for much of people in port au prince. open sewage was obvious in many areas. goverment is marginal & the gangs run urban areas.area was declared most dangerous in world by u.n.in essence this place is simply a festering sore of humanity.i seriously doubt if enough flammable material is available to burn all the bodies. my conclusion is an earthquake on top of this region simply means write it off as a lost cause. where are the resources available to house & feed three or four huindred thousand people. certainly the country doe'nt have resources to rebuild.

Im sure you would say the same thing if your family lived there. Have some respect for human life. Just because there is some bad people there does not mean they are all bad. Saying crap like "writing off" people doesnt make you much better than those gangbangers that run the country.

 

[DennisStrickland]

respect for human life has nothing to do with solving an impossible problem. we are talking putting roofs over hundreds of thousands of people & water & food for same . remember Katrina? we could'nt even put a roof over those people' we evaced them, now where do you think we can evac this chunk of humanity, do you want them in your yard or in the ocean? be realistic only a certain amount of resources are avaiable. it doe'st take rocket science to understand only a certain amount of aid is possible. regardless of all efforts many more thousands are going to perish. if anyone has a viable solution please inform the united nations.

 

[Dnalsi]

http://publications.paho.org/pdf/dead_bodies.pdf

CONCLUSIONS
There is no evidence that, following
a natural disaster, dead bodies pose a
risk of epidemics. “Epidemic-causing”
acute diseases are unlikely to be more
common among disaster victims than
among the general population, suggesting
that the risk to the general
public is negligible. The same is true
with casualties of conventional war (as
distinct from biological, chemical, or
radiological warfare).

 

[Will Power]

This surprises me, thousands of rotting corpses , unburied in 30c would lead to plagues of flies which in turn act as vectors of disease. In Europe in World War One, unburied corpses in shell holes certainly did contribute to vast amounts of illness. See accounts of fly plagues in the Gallipoli campaign spoiling foodstuff and spreading gastro enteritis etc.

I'm pretty sure none of us would fancy foraging for food in collapsed buildings with corpses strewn all around.....

 

[LUW]

Infections are not the issue, the problem is water contamination by dead bodies.

 

[Mannlicher]

there will be many different diseases involved with the Haiti disaster. The place is a breeding ground for pestilence, even without the earthquake.

 

[Thalestin]

respect for human life has nothing to do with solving an impossible problem. we are talking putting roofs over hundreds of thousands of people & water & food for same . remember Katrina? we could'nt even put a roof over those people' we evaced them, now where do you think we can evac this chunk of humanity, do you want them in your yard or in the ocean? be realistic only a certain amount of resources are avaiable. it doe'st take rocket science to understand only a certain amount of aid is possible. regardless of all efforts many more thousands are going to perish. if anyone has a viable solution please inform the united nations.

Just because it is a very difficult problem, I think not even trying is wrong. Help as much as we can because we will save lives. No we wont save everyone, but we can save thousands of lives. Even from a selfish perspective, we may learn how to better use resources to help ourselves when another disaster hits us.

 

[LUW]

my conclusion is an earthquake on top of this region simply means write it off as a lost cause. where are the resources available to house & feed three or four huindred thousand people. certainly the country doe'nt have resources to rebuild.

So Haiti should be leveled and everybody who's left hosed because there's no easy solution?
It's really saddening to read stuff like this on a civil and international forum.