he massive tragedy of Haiti makes the little contratemps around here seem so trivial. I suddenly remember the article Voltaire wrote about the disaster at Lisbon.
Look it up.
Haiti is so far away from us, yet we’re already there. The lack of local organization and equipment for search and rescue demands that the rest of the world get to this island as soon as possible. I would think that dogs trained to discover life under rubble is the first priority, since they don’t demand unwieldy equipment, then construction equipment to dig under the rubble, then food distribution, then makeshift hospitals. When you look at the buildings that fell they seem so fragile, so light, that there may well be many more than we imagine buried alive and waiting to be saved.
We have – unfortunately – much experience in getting people out of rubble. It is a bit of comfort to think that a team of ours will be there in a few hours.
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