So the whole politics thing didn't really work out too well because by the time I started posting them all but five or six of the primary's/caucuses were already over... So I'm going to take a different path.
I would like to start out by sending out my deepest condolences to Myanmar and China.
As most of you already know, Myanmar was hit with a terrible cyclone just over 2 weeks ago, killing 34,273 and counting. The unfortunate part of the Myanmar cyclone, the part that hits hard, is the United Nation's estimate thar up to 40% of those who were killed in the cyclone were children.
Another thing that most of you already know, China was hit with a 7.9 earthquake, just a day ago, killing 10,000 and nearly 10,000 remain missing.
I can't even begin to imagine such disasters hitting home. Even Hurricanes Katrina, not to trivialize this tragic event, only had 1,500 deaths, which fail in comparison to the estimated 45,000 already dead between these two horrifying disasters.
I know that if something like this does happen close to home, as a EMT, that I will have a lot of wonderful people responding and working there asses off to find every last trapped person. I know that there are tons of people out there much like myself who have continued their education, by getting disaster response training. A little price to pay to be able to save thousands of people, hundreds of people, tens of people, or maybe just one person, but who knows who that person could be, it could be you.
I pray to all of you to follow in my and many others footsteps by getting disaster responses training. There is a some time and effort put into the training but its worth it even if all you save is one life.
china
