Two Friends of Mine...

[-Carlos-]

...are in Haiti right now helping the victims. One is an Medical Doctor and the other a Nurse. They arrived yesterday and have not stopped treating the people.

 

[mmyap]

I wish your friends Godspeed and a safe return home again. It is a nightmare down there and promises to remain so for a long time.

 

[giraffe]

It's actually an amazing tragedy.

The populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined before WWII was around 600,000.
The population of Port-au-Prince before the earthquake was around 700,000.

About one hundred fifty thousand people died instantly when we bombed Japan.
Estimates are two hundred thousand already dead in Haiti.

So, the situation on the ground is very like much an atomic bomb went off. Which is beyond true comprehension.

 

[Bob Magness]

It's actually an amazing tragedy.

The populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined before WWII was around 600,000.
The population of Port-au-Prince before the earthquake was around 700,000.

About one hundred fifty thousand people died instantly when we bombed Japan.
Estimates are two hundred thousand already dead in Haiti.

So, the situation on the ground is very like much an atomic bomb went off. Which is beyond true comprehension.

And in this case even worse because Japan was an advanced society with the ability to rebuild itself. Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere that had little infrastructure to begin with.

 

[giraffe]

I understand looking for countries to take what is expected to be ten thousand or more newly orphaned kids. Apparently their domestic orphanages are already just forced to turn kids away. There's too little to go around already, so if they take in these new kids, everybody starves.

 

[SFG75]

When you hear of tragedies in the news, it is easy to just go about your day and not think twice. A downed cruise liner here, a crashed airplane there....and grab your venti. This one has been quite different for me personally and I am still shocked by all the images and stories that are coming out of there. Then I about have an aneuryism when I read what Pat Robertson said about Haiti.

 

[Bob Magness]

Then I about have an aneuryism when I read what Pat Robertson said about Haiti.

No kidding. My blood starts to boil when I hear his name. He is lower than pond scum.

 

[beer good]

Is anyone surprised anymore when Pat Robertson says something like that, though? Isn't that pretty much what he's made a career of the last 20 years or so? Every time something horrible happens, someone hands him a mic, and predictably he says something offensive that always boils down to the same thing: God hates everyone who's not Pat Robertson.

Meanwhile, in Haiti, they found a guy today who had survived for 11 days under the rubble. Also, they have now found 150,000 dead bodies. And more are yet to be found.

BTW, I don't suppose we could change the title of this thread to make it more on-topic?