SOMETHING POSITIVE ABOUT HAITI AND SOMETHING WORRISOME

Oxfam reports they are distributing clean water to people in Haiti. This is very important, not just for hydration, but also to prevent microbial illness. It is fortunate from an infectious disease standpoint that it has not rained yet in Haiti. If it does the water can become contaminated from the dead bodies.

There are reports on looting which is ridiculous. Of course people are going to scrounge for food, water, and other needs like clothing. What other option do they have? It took a week to even get the aid distribution going. I do not think the dead people in the collapsed houses care and probably would have wanted their neighbors to get whatever they could to survive. There are reports of violence yet the people who are in the thick of things keep saying they have not seen any. These stories on MSM could be related to the private contractors who want to get private security gigs in Haiti. Bush and Clinton working on fund raising for Haiti is just so unbelievable, that I thought I might be dreaming I am living in George Orwell’s novel 1984. Then I remembered that I was, it isn’t a dream. Doublethink, doublethink. I wonder how Orwell would have felt about his book being used as a guide. My concern about how the people of Haiti will be exploited next have gone off the scale.