(10-12-2017 04:53 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(10-12-2017 04:15 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(10-12-2017 03:50 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(10-12-2017 03:29 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(10-12-2017 03:20 PM)VA49er Wrote:  Yeah, about that boat. Kind of hard to send a boat out when the hurricane was still churning in the Atlantic. Anything to complain about I guess.

Why do you guys continually suspend reality just to make these idiotic points. No dude, no one is saying the ship should have been in PR waters when the hurricane was still there. FFS!

Ok, so when should it have been sent?

Since it takes several days to get there, it probably could have been sent as soon as the storm hit in all actuality...as soon as the storm was on the gulf side of Florida.

And further on this...now that it's there...with the capability to treat like 800 patients, it was reported yesterday that only 8 patients were being seen. Unacceptable.

Was it ready to go then? Fully fueled up? Fully manned? Fully loaded? What level of readiness does it maintain when not deployed? And where was it and what was it doing? How far away and how fast can it sail? You see, resources are not unlimited. So let's look at what could realistically be done with the resources we actually have.

As far as only 8 patients, why do you suppose that is so? And what could have been done about that?

It's easy to say people are sick and their homes are destroyed and say that proves the relief effort is faulty. But that really proves no such thing.

I honestly wish that every single one of the morons complaining about the relief efforts in this thread using only the talking points they are getting from their overlords could be forced to participate in just one relief effort so they could see just how foolish they look.