Huge quake in Nepal (1 Viewer)

[Jayrod]

Death toll is 2,500 and expected to rise. :(

4,000+ now

:(

More dead than 9-11 and there's 41 posts in this thread.

Nepali lives matter.

Pretty typical American response.

If we can't relate, we don't care.

I donated some $ today and am keeping my eyes out for any other ways to help, but the response around here seems to be pretty blah.

There is a huge difference in an intentional attack and an act of nature. And the US leads the world in its commitment for aid to Nepal.

Outside of there being someone to blame, not much else is different for the victims' families.

I've seen zero posts on Facebook about this thing. Nobody gives a crap. I posted something and got 2 likes, 0 replies.

If the victims aren't like Americans, it isn't even an issue. Heck even this thread is mostly about the Americans who were caught in it as opposed to the people who actually live there.

4,000+ dead. Thousands more injured. Entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble. Meh, lets talk about something funny.

But hey, good job making a bigger "commitment" than any other country. Especially considering our GDP is 68% higher than the #2, China. Go us!

 

[Jayrod]

Death toll is 2,500 and expected to rise. :(

4,000+ now

:(

More dead than 9-11 and there's 41 posts in this thread.

Nepali lives matter.

One of the most ridiculous posts on this site...and we know how moronic this site can be. Congrats.

If you are trying to say the last line about Nepali lives mattering, then at least you are consistent.

If not, then WTH is your point? He posted three factual statements. If something in there is offensive to you, you probably need to ask yourself why.

 

[Epic Problem]

I've seen zero posts on Facebook about this thing. Nobody gives a crap. I posted something and got 2 likes, 0 replies.

Maybe you need to choose your friends better

 

[NCCommish]

Death toll is 2,500 and expected to rise. :(

4,000+ now

:(

More dead than 9-11 and there's 41 posts in this thread.

Nepali lives matter.

Pretty typical American response.

If we can't relate, we don't care.

I donated some $ today and am keeping my eyes out for any other ways to help, but the response around here seems to be pretty blah.

There is a huge difference in an intentional attack and an act of nature. And the US leads the world in its commitment for aid to Nepal.

Outside of there being someone to blame, not much else is different for the victims' families.I've seen zero posts on Facebook about this thing. Nobody gives a crap. I posted something and got 2 likes, 0 replies.

If the victims aren't like Americans, it isn't even an issue. Heck even this thread is mostly about the Americans who were caught in it as opposed to the people who actually live there.

4,000+ dead. Thousands more injured. Entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble. Meh, lets talk about something funny.

But hey, good job making a bigger "commitment" than any other country. Especially considering our GDP is 68% higher than the #2, China. Go us!

Have you met people? We are very tribal. So if it didn't happen to our tribe it's not a pressing concern. Just how people are.

 

[jon_mx]

I have seen several posts on FB about this

That should solve the problem.

 

[jon_mx]

Anybody know what fool made this thread about bashing America? Geez, what a crappy way to take this.

 

[Cjw_55106]

Death toll is 2,500 and expected to rise. :(

4,000+ now

:(

More dead than 9-11 and there's 41 posts in this thread.

Nepali lives matter.

Pretty typical American response.

If we can't relate, we don't care.

I donated some $ today and am keeping my eyes out for any other ways to help, but the response around here seems to be pretty blah.

There is a huge difference in an intentional attack and an act of nature. And the US leads the world in its commitment for aid to Nepal.

Outside of there being someone to blame, not much else is different for the victims' families.I've seen zero posts on Facebook about this thing. Nobody gives a crap. I posted something and got 2 likes, 0 replies.

If the victims aren't like Americans, it isn't even an issue. Heck even this thread is mostly about the Americans who were caught in it as opposed to the people who actually live there.

4,000+ dead. Thousands more injured. Entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble. Meh, lets talk about something funny.

But hey, good job making a bigger "commitment" than any other country. Especially considering our GDP is 68% higher than the #2, China. Go us!

Not much else is different for the families? So if your loved one was brutally raped and murdered, that's the same as if she had a heart attack and died, right?

 

[Rohn Jambo]

Death toll is 2,500 and expected to rise. :(

4,000+ now

:(

More dead than 9-11 and there's 41 posts in this thread.

Nepali lives matter.

Pretty typical American response.

If we can't relate, we don't care.

I donated some $ today and am keeping my eyes out for any other ways to help, but the response around here seems to be pretty blah.

There is a huge difference in an intentional attack and an act of nature. And the US leads the world in its commitment for aid to Nepal.

Outside of there being someone to blame, not much else is different for the victims' families.I've seen zero posts on Facebook about this thing. Nobody gives a crap. I posted something and got 2 likes, 0 replies.

If the victims aren't like Americans, it isn't even an issue. Heck even this thread is mostly about the Americans who were caught in it as opposed to the people who actually live there.

4,000+ dead. Thousands more injured. Entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble. Meh, lets talk about something funny.

But hey, good job making a bigger "commitment" than any other country. Especially considering our GDP is 68% higher than the #2, China. Go us!

Some people just don't get it...http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3057953/This-earthquake-tourism-not-right-Selfie-enthusiasts-criticised-taking-pictures-Nepal-s-wrecked-monuments.html

 

[Cjw_55106]

Death toll is 2,500 and expected to rise. :(

4,000+ now

:(

More dead than 9-11 and there's 41 posts in this thread.

Nepali lives matter.

Pretty typical American response.

If we can't relate, we don't care.

I donated some $ today and am keeping my eyes out for any other ways to help, but the response around here seems to be pretty blah.

There is a huge difference in an intentional attack and an act of nature. And the US leads the world in its commitment for aid to Nepal.

Outside of there being someone to blame, not much else is different for the victims' families.I've seen zero posts on Facebook about this thing. Nobody gives a crap. I posted something and got 2 likes, 0 replies.

If the victims aren't like Americans, it isn't even an issue. Heck even this thread is mostly about the Americans who were caught in it as opposed to the people who actually live there.

4,000+ dead. Thousands more injured. Entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble. Meh, lets talk about something funny.

But hey, good job making a bigger "commitment" than any other country. Especially considering our GDP is 68% higher than the #2, China. Go us!

Some people just don't get it...http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3057953/This-earthquake-tourism-not-right-Selfie-enthusiasts-criticised-taking-pictures-Nepal-s-wrecked-monuments.html

I wonder if they are from Cleveland or Seattle. Damn Americans.

 

[Jayrod]

I've seen zero posts on Facebook about this thing. Nobody gives a crap. I posted something and got 2 likes, 0 replies.

Maybe you need to choose your friends better

I'm thinking so.

 

[Jayrod]

Death toll is 2,500 and expected to rise. :(

4,000+ now

:(

More dead than 9-11 and there's 41 posts in this thread.

Nepali lives matter.

Pretty typical American response.

If we can't relate, we don't care.

I donated some $ today and am keeping my eyes out for any other ways to help, but the response around here seems to be pretty blah.

There is a huge difference in an intentional attack and an act of nature. And the US leads the world in its commitment for aid to Nepal.

Outside of there being someone to blame, not much else is different for the victims' families.I've seen zero posts on Facebook about this thing. Nobody gives a crap. I posted something and got 2 likes, 0 replies.

If the victims aren't like Americans, it isn't even an issue. Heck even this thread is mostly about the Americans who were caught in it as opposed to the people who actually live there.

4,000+ dead. Thousands more injured. Entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble. Meh, lets talk about something funny.

But hey, good job making a bigger "commitment" than any other country. Especially considering our GDP is 68% higher than the #2, China. Go us!

Not much else is different for the families? So if your loved one was brutally raped and murdered, that's the same as if she had a heart attack and died, right?

What in the holy hell are you talking about?Who was brutally raped on 9/11?

 

[FreeBaGeL]

Death toll is 2,500 and expected to rise. :(

4,000+ now

:(

More dead than 9-11 and there's 41 posts in this thread.

Nepali lives matter.

Pretty typical American response.

If we can't relate, we don't care.

I donated some $ today and am keeping my eyes out for any other ways to help, but the response around here seems to be pretty blah.

I'm right there with you guys on the bolded and have sent some cash there way as well, but I don't think it should be some big surprise that a foreign attack on America generates more buzz in America than an earthquake thousands of miles away.

In other news, Dion Jordan's suspension is generating more buzz on Dolphins' forums than Vikings' forums and the Josh Hamilton story has way more replies on baseballguys than footballguys.

I agree that there is too much apathy towards atrocities in less developed areas of the world but that is in no way unique to America or even to well developed countries. I'm sure this quake isn't the buzz of the town in Zimbabwe or Australia either.

 

[urbanhack]

5,000+ now.

 

[Honus]

Death toll is 2,500 and expected to rise. :(

4,000+ now

:(

More dead than 9-11 and there's 41 posts in this thread.

Nepali lives matter.

Pretty typical American response.

If we can't relate, we don't care.

I donated some $ today and am keeping my eyes out for any other ways to help, but the response around here seems to be pretty blah.

There is a huge difference in an intentional attack and an act of nature. And the US leads the world in its commitment for aid to Nepal.

Outside of there being someone to blame, not much else is different for the victims' families.I've seen zero posts on Facebook about this thing. Nobody gives a crap. I posted something and got 2 likes, 0 replies.

If the victims aren't like Americans, it isn't even an issue. Heck even this thread is mostly about the Americans who were caught in it as opposed to the people who actually live there.

4,000+ dead. Thousands more injured. Entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble. Meh, lets talk about something funny.

But hey, good job making a bigger "commitment" than any other country. Especially considering our GDP is 68% higher than the #2, China. Go us!

Have you met people? We are very tribal. So if it didn't happen to our tribe it's not a pressing concern. Just how people are.

We also have incredibly short memories. The earthquake that struck Haiti just five years ago killed 100,000 people (by the most conservative estimates). And that was in our own hemisphere.

 

[jon_mx]

Here is what US Aid did in Haiti.................

Relief (rapid, life-saving emergency assistance):

• Search and Rescue: Deployed seven search-and-rescue teams as part of an international rescue effort that saved more than 130 lives.
• Emergency Food Assistance: Provided emergency food relief for nearly 4 million people in the first three months after the earthquake, the largest emergency food distribution ever.
• Water: Provided safe drinking water for up to 1.3 million people daily following the earthquake.
• Sanitation: Installed more than 11,500 latrines and 25 water systems.
• Emergency Shelter: In cooperation with international partners, provided basic shelter materials to 1.5 million people in the five months after the earthquake (prior to the start of rainy season).
• Cholera: Rapidly responded to the cholera outbreak in cooperation with the CDC and the GOH. The number of cholera deaths has declined dramatically---from 4,101 deaths in the three months following the outbreak in 2010 to only 32 deaths in 2014. The 2014 case fatality rate is just .4 percent--- well below the international standard of 1 percent.

Recovery (bridging the gap from emergency assistance to reconstruction):

• Cash-for-Work: Employed more than 350,000 people (about half of whom were women) in the first year after the earthquake through short-term, cash-for-work jobs, injecting more than $19 million into the local economy.
• Rubble Removal: Cleared more than 2.7 million cubic meters of rubble out of the 10 million cubic meters of rubble created by the earthquake.
• Shelter Solutions: Provided shelter solutions for more than 328,000 people.
• Education: Constructed over 600 semi-permanent classrooms, allowing 60,000 students to return to school.
• Coordination and Planning: Supported the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission, the planning body for the Haitian recovery.

Reconstruction (promoting sustainable, long-term development, requiring in-depth exchanges with new partners and Government of Haiti officials to design and implement projects):

• Housing/Settlements: Completed permanent housing near the Caracol Industrial Park and north of Port-au-Prince. Partnering with other donors and NGOs in constructing housing in three additional locations. Increasing access to housing finance as well as providing community development support to ensure sustainability of these settlements.
• Energy: Constructed a 10 megawatt power plant, with potential expansion to 25 megawatts, for the Caracol Industrial Park in Haiti’s north and rehabilitated five electrical substations in Port-au-Prince. USAID’s Improved CookingTechnologies Program is establishing local markets for clean cooking stoves and an industry to sustain it.
• Economic Security: Supporting access to basic financial services (via financial institutions) to over 500,000 clients, particularly in the rural and agricultural areas. Made available approximately $5.8 million in technical assistance, commodities, and loan capital to 20,000 micro-enterprises.
• Food Security: Introduced improved seeds, fertilizer, and technologies to more than 70,000 farmers; these increased rice yields by 139 percent, corn yields by 448 percent, bean yields by 95 percent, and plantain yields by 56 percent in 2013. Strengthened agricultural markets by reducing post-harvest losses, rehabilitating rural roads and linking producers directly to markets. Increased the total sales by farmers supported through Feed the Future West from $7 million in 2010 to $12.9 million in 2013.
• Health: Provide access to basic medical care to approximately 50 percent the Haitian population through our support of over 160 clinics nationwide. Immunizations (for children against rubella, polio, measles, as well as diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus) being implemented at our facilities reach 85 percent of children, well above the national average of 45 percent.
• Education: Developing an innovative, evidence-based early-grade reading program that aims to eventually reach more than one million children nationwide as other partners extend the use of the program’s reading curricula and training methods beyond the development corridors.
• Disabilities: Provided support to address different aspects of inclusion and provision of better and more accessible care for persons with disabilities. These aspects strengthening the legal framework, strengthening the voice of people with disabilities, rehabilitation and reintegration as well as specialist training for disabilities technicians. We have also increased physical access for disabled students and teachers in 19 primary schools and funded St. Boniface Spinal Cord Injury Center.

Yeah....US sucks!!!!

 

[Honus]

Here is what US Aid did in Haiti.................

Relief (rapid, life-saving emergency assistance):

• Search and Rescue: Deployed seven search-and-rescue teams as part of an international rescue effort that saved more than 130 lives.
• Emergency Food Assistance: Provided emergency food relief for nearly 4 million people in the first three months after the earthquake, the largest emergency food distribution ever.
• Water: Provided safe drinking water for up to 1.3 million people daily following the earthquake.
• Sanitation: Installed more than 11,500 latrines and 25 water systems.
• Emergency Shelter: In cooperation with international partners, provided basic shelter materials to 1.5 million people in the five months after the earthquake (prior to the start of rainy season).
• Cholera: Rapidly responded to the cholera outbreak in cooperation with the CDC and the GOH. The number of cholera deaths has declined dramatically---from 4,101 deaths in the three months following the outbreak in 2010 to only 32 deaths in 2014. The 2014 case fatality rate is just .4 percent--- well below the international standard of 1 percent.

Recovery (bridging the gap from emergency assistance to reconstruction):

• Cash-for-Work: Employed more than 350,000 people (about half of whom were women) in the first year after the earthquake through short-term, cash-for-work jobs, injecting more than $19 million into the local economy.
• Rubble Removal: Cleared more than 2.7 million cubic meters of rubble out of the 10 million cubic meters of rubble created by the earthquake.
• Shelter Solutions: Provided shelter solutions for more than 328,000 people.
• Education: Constructed over 600 semi-permanent classrooms, allowing 60,000 students to return to school.
• Coordination and Planning: Supported the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission, the planning body for the Haitian recovery.

Reconstruction (promoting sustainable, long-term development, requiring in-depth exchanges with new partners and Government of Haiti officials to design and implement projects):

• Housing/Settlements: Completed permanent housing near the Caracol Industrial Park and north of Port-au-Prince. Partnering with other donors and NGOs in constructing housing in three additional locations. Increasing access to housing finance as well as providing community development support to ensure sustainability of these settlements.
• Energy: Constructed a 10 megawatt power plant, with potential expansion to 25 megawatts, for the Caracol Industrial Park in Haiti’s north and rehabilitated five electrical substations in Port-au-Prince. USAID’s Improved CookingTechnologies Program is establishing local markets for clean cooking stoves and an industry to sustain it.
• Economic Security: Supporting access to basic financial services (via financial institutions) to over 500,000 clients, particularly in the rural and agricultural areas. Made available approximately $5.8 million in technical assistance, commodities, and loan capital to 20,000 micro-enterprises.
• Food Security: Introduced improved seeds, fertilizer, and technologies to more than 70,000 farmers; these increased rice yields by 139 percent, corn yields by 448 percent, bean yields by 95 percent, and plantain yields by 56 percent in 2013. Strengthened agricultural markets by reducing post-harvest losses, rehabilitating rural roads and linking producers directly to markets. Increased the total sales by farmers supported through Feed the Future West from $7 million in 2010 to $12.9 million in 2013.
• Health: Provide access to basic medical care to approximately 50 percent the Haitian population through our support of over 160 clinics nationwide. Immunizations (for children against rubella, polio, measles, as well as diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus) being implemented at our facilities reach 85 percent of children, well above the national average of 45 percent.
• Education: Developing an innovative, evidence-based early-grade reading program that aims to eventually reach more than one million children nationwide as other partners extend the use of the program’s reading curricula and training methods beyond the development corridors.
• Disabilities: Provided support to address different aspects of inclusion and provision of better and more accessible care for persons with disabilities. These aspects strengthening the legal framework, strengthening the voice of people with disabilities, rehabilitation and reintegration as well as specialist training for disabilities technicians. We have also increased physical access for disabled students and teachers in 19 primary schools and funded St. Boniface Spinal Cord Injury Center.

Yeah....US sucks!!!!

That's not the point I was trying to make at all.

 

[TheAristocrat]

Can this thread just be about the earthquake or am I going to have to wade through senseless political BS to get to the real updates in this thread moving forward?

 

[beer 30]

Can this thread just be about the earthquake or am I going to have to wade through senseless political BS to get to the real updates in this thread moving forward?

Must be new to the FFA. I wish it would be that easy, sad that it always devolves into that.

 

[32 Counter Pass]

Here is what US Aid did in Haiti.................

Relief (rapid, life-saving emergency assistance):

• Search and Rescue: Deployed seven search-and-rescue teams as part of an international rescue effort that saved more than 130 lives.
• Emergency Food Assistance: Provided emergency food relief for nearly 4 million people in the first three months after the earthquake, the largest emergency food distribution ever.
• Water: Provided safe drinking water for up to 1.3 million people daily following the earthquake.
• Sanitation: Installed more than 11,500 latrines and 25 water systems.
• Emergency Shelter: In cooperation with international partners, provided basic shelter materials to 1.5 million people in the five months after the earthquake (prior to the start of rainy season).
• Cholera: Rapidly responded to the cholera outbreak in cooperation with the CDC and the GOH. The number of cholera deaths has declined dramatically---from 4,101 deaths in the three months following the outbreak in 2010 to only 32 deaths in 2014. The 2014 case fatality rate is just .4 percent--- well below the international standard of 1 percent.

Recovery (bridging the gap from emergency assistance to reconstruction):

• Cash-for-Work: Employed more than 350,000 people (about half of whom were women) in the first year after the earthquake through short-term, cash-for-work jobs, injecting more than $19 million into the local economy.
• Rubble Removal: Cleared more than 2.7 million cubic meters of rubble out of the 10 million cubic meters of rubble created by the earthquake.
• Shelter Solutions: Provided shelter solutions for more than 328,000 people.
• Education: Constructed over 600 semi-permanent classrooms, allowing 60,000 students to return to school.
• Coordination and Planning: Supported the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission, the planning body for the Haitian recovery.

Reconstruction (promoting sustainable, long-term development, requiring in-depth exchanges with new partners and Government of Haiti officials to design and implement projects):

• Housing/Settlements: Completed permanent housing near the Caracol Industrial Park and north of Port-au-Prince. Partnering with other donors and NGOs in constructing housing in three additional locations. Increasing access to housing finance as well as providing community development support to ensure sustainability of these settlements.
• Energy: Constructed a 10 megawatt power plant, with potential expansion to 25 megawatts, for the Caracol Industrial Park in Haiti’s north and rehabilitated five electrical substations in Port-au-Prince. USAID’s Improved CookingTechnologies Program is establishing local markets for clean cooking stoves and an industry to sustain it.
• Economic Security: Supporting access to basic financial services (via financial institutions) to over 500,000 clients, particularly in the rural and agricultural areas. Made available approximately $5.8 million in technical assistance, commodities, and loan capital to 20,000 micro-enterprises.
• Food Security: Introduced improved seeds, fertilizer, and technologies to more than 70,000 farmers; these increased rice yields by 139 percent, corn yields by 448 percent, bean yields by 95 percent, and plantain yields by 56 percent in 2013. Strengthened agricultural markets by reducing post-harvest losses, rehabilitating rural roads and linking producers directly to markets. Increased the total sales by farmers supported through Feed the Future West from $7 million in 2010 to $12.9 million in 2013.
• Health: Provide access to basic medical care to approximately 50 percent the Haitian population through our support of over 160 clinics nationwide. Immunizations (for children against rubella, polio, measles, as well as diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus) being implemented at our facilities reach 85 percent of children, well above the national average of 45 percent.
• Education: Developing an innovative, evidence-based early-grade reading program that aims to eventually reach more than one million children nationwide as other partners extend the use of the program’s reading curricula and training methods beyond the development corridors.
• Disabilities: Provided support to address different aspects of inclusion and provision of better and more accessible care for persons with disabilities. These aspects strengthening the legal framework, strengthening the voice of people with disabilities, rehabilitation and reintegration as well as specialist training for disabilities technicians. We have also increased physical access for disabled students and teachers in 19 primary schools and funded St. Boniface Spinal Cord Injury Center.

Yeah....US sucks!!!!

Interesting set of "facts". A recent Vice report showed that most of money for aid did not get to the people most in need of help. Google "Haiti aid failure" for all the gory details. Only $1 in every $100 was spent to help people, and Chollera is still a major problem because of the lack of sanitation.

 

[tonydead]

#2?

 

[tri-man 47]

What an emotional toll on top of the human loss and physical destruction.

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

Terrible. Twas almost as big as the first one. Can't imagine the fear those poor people are experiencing now.

ETA: link

 

[fatguyinalittlecoat]

Brutal.

At least this hasn't delayed the ads for that earthquake movie starring the Rock.