This is an epic, monumental thread. Perhaps the funniest
DUmp thread since stevenumbers questioned his girlfriend's cold sore. DUmmy nadin takes such a beating you almost feel sympathy. Almost. It is well worth visiting.
nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:09 PM
Original message
Ok I want you people to understand something right now
in a regular, every day quake, you got logistics issues... which translates into :
FOOD,
WATER
FUEL
MEDICAL SUPPLIES
TENTS.
DOGS
RESCUERS that can self maintain
yep the list familiar from many a quake and other disaster.
Here they also have people inside the exclusion zone. From a TRIAGE perspective it is not that people are afraid to go in there to get them. Just that going in will get more people killed... now or later... really does not matter.
As an Emergency Worker it gets to the point that you have to give up... and it might seem cruel... given thousands are still in the zone from what I can read... but this is the reality of it.
And typing this is hard, because these people LOOK healthy, can talk to you, and all that.
Radiation just adds all kinds of complications and if I were in charge of operations (which I am thankful I am not) after a similar event around oh San Onofre... yes I would have to write off people...
This is the way it is... cruel, cold yes... unfortunately the needs of the few do not override the needs of the many.. even if the few are a few thousand people.
Nor would I ask any crew member of mine to go in... with or without equipment. I would not ask that... either.
It goes without saying... NOBODY DESERVES THIS, but this is the very cold and bitchy reality.
Why I was hopping for these people, but as long as this goes on... yes somebody pretty high up has made that decision... and no, it has nothing to do with capitalism but all to do with TRIAGE. Oh and incidentally if I happened to be inside the exclusion zone... I pretty much expect to be left behind... that is the way it is.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x666804This is a huge, gigantic, monumental thread. DUmmy nadin is blasted from every angle. I will paste a few big blocks intact, because it would take forever to properly copy and paste.
leftstreet (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:11 PM
Response to Original message
1. What makes you think we didn't already understand this?
bobbolink (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:13 PM
Response to Reply #1
3. we plebes are hopelessly ignorant, and depend on mommy and daddy to set us straight.
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Maru Kitteh (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:22 PM
Response to Reply #3
14. We must be! n/t
Whisp (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:15 PM
Response to Reply #1
4. I think the OP would save more lives if she went shopping for milk
and left us alone for 10 minutes. It's getting critical mass, where's the *******ed ledge.
seabeyond (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:23 PM
Response to Reply #4
20. i was going to hooyah leftstreet.... but you made me laugh. nt
anneboleyn (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:27 PM
Response to Reply #4
30. Amen, She posts these to "inform" us "ignorant" folks every time any event
happens which remotely justifies such a post. Never mind that others here at DU are M.D.s and nurses and have worked in the medical field for years. Or that the rest of the DU community understands the situation perfectly well. OP is convinced that there is a very high level of ignorance that she needs to address, again and again, with a strange sort of enthusiam, reminding us that many must die! (all caps, etc.)
nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:28 PM
Response to Reply #30
34. bye, welcome to the ignore list
Joe the Revelator (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:29 PM
Response to Reply #34
37. you're SO FUNNY
Blue-Jay (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:31 PM
Response to Reply #34
43. By next week, you'll only be able to read your own posts.
Call me crazy, but I think you'll be OK with that.
seabeyond (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:31 PM
Original message
lol
you made me laugh. i am finding this thread really amusing. and subect matter would demand otherwise.
seabeyond (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:34 PM
Response to Reply #51
54. can a person put themselves on ignore? bah hahahaha. nt
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:35 PM
Response to Reply #54
57. I can think of some DUers whom I *wish* would do that.
Edited on Wed Mar-16-11 10:37 PM by gkhouston
on edit: I notice that some of you haven't been zotted in the last few minutes. Guess you're already in the club.
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Maru Kitteh (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:40 PM
Response to Reply #43
74. Blue-Jay dear, I don't know you, but I'd be inclined to say you are probably NOT the crazy one
on this thread.
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Blue-Jay (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:47 PM
Original message
I appreciate that, but
yesterday I screamed at a crow because he wouldn't stop calling me "Caw". That's not my ****in' name! I tried to educate him, but he kept doing it.
I ended up putting him on IGNORE.
(You know who else used to type "IGNORE" in caps? Hitler, that's who.)
SidDithers (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:56 PM
Response to Reply #4
121. I just wonder if she sees anything but "Ignored" anymore in the replies to her...
Maru Kitteh (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:44 PM
Response to Reply #44
81. Yup, the Japanese are sharing with each other instead of hoarding milk they don't need, like some
people who shall go unnamed.
demmiblue (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:19 PM
Response to Original message
7. No offense, but I think talking down to people is not the way to get your message heard. n/t
Blue-Jay (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:24 PM
Response to Reply #7
22. How else will we learn?
(if we're not treated like children by an intellectual inferior)
Violet_Crumble (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:25 PM
Response to Reply #7
25. I second that. I hope Nadin rethinks their approach n/t
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:35 PM
Response to Reply #25
56. I just approached it from the cold ****ing reality
and it is one that sucks, major ass.
Whisp (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:42 PM
Response to Reply #56
78. and we all come from Warm ****ing Fantasy... yep yep
master has so much to give to us
Violet_Crumble (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:53 PM
Response to Reply #56
105. No, the approach was condescending and talking down to everyone...
If no-one else had spoken up about it, I'd write it off as me being a bit sensitive, but other people are saying that the approach was condescending and superior....
nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:54 PM
Response to Reply #105
110. Actually if I wrote it in a nice way
people would still be going it is condescending and superior...
Some folks truly, cannot handle the truth. It is not about a national origin, they just can't
She's talking about the truth of her superiority.
Brickbat (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:37 PM
Original message
NO!!! Learning cannot take place without arrogance, ahems, and bad grammar.
It's that simple.
Codeine (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:46 PM
Response to Reply #7
83. It's all she knows.
Seriously, she can't utter a word without being condescending.
demmiblue (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:57 PM
Response to Reply #83
124. I realize this.
I kind of think of her as the RadioLady of GD.
She annoyed me at first, but now I feel sorry for her.
I think that there are some issues here.
OK... bleeding heart. Totally accept it!
riderinthestorm (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:48 PM
Response to Reply #7
87. Cuz we're just dumb 'Merkins....
(well not all of us of course but that's the gist).
nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:49 PM
Response to Reply #87
90. Actually wrong, this is the very cold reality
that is usually not spoken outside insert here, national disaster academy center.
Codeine (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-16-11 10:55 PM
Response to Reply #87
114. We don't know shit.
Fortunately the TetraPak Historian is here to educate us.