jim rozen wrote:
In article 01c5afca$c4b9e960$c7a2c3d8@race, * says...


Funny how so many other disasters around the USA seem to have brought out
the absolute best in the American people, but in an area boasting the title
"The Big Easy" where morals are loose at best, and often snickered at,
morality and empathy for fellow humans has totally broken down.


I think the looting and criminal acts do sell a lot of newspapers and
airtime. I suspect that there's not much airplay in talking about the
folks in the hospitals right now, who refuse to abandon their patients
in the face of overwhelming conditions.

Heard an NPR story yesterday about hospital workers keeping patients
alive after the ventilators lost power. They were using manual bellows
and taking turns pumping air into the patients, round the clock. When
they weren't doing that, they were attending to other patients as fast
as possible. Many had worked well past 24 hours with no sleep.
Lots of heroes out there.