(15 November 2013, 10:12)bigpaul Wrote: I think it is interesting to note that after an event like this it takes 1 WEEK before ANY help or supplies get into the area!
I heard a report on R4 earlier in the week and a Philipino official was being interviewed, he said in not so many words that the supplies that were available for emergency relief were not being distributed because there was no way to protect the aid workers from the looting, out of control mobs of desperate people. Note, he did not say this but this was his sub text.
I think it is interesting that the aid only begins to b distributed after a long enough period to seriously weaken the masses sufficiently.