This URL, http://tinyurl.com/yefzkg , will take you to a story from today’s LA Times about the retirement of National Hurricane Center Director, Max Mayfield. Mayfield doesn’t think we can count on government to wisely prepare for inevitable hurricane disasters. Substitute “health disasters” and bingo…he’s still right.
Max is a really cool guy who has my respect.
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…” he hoped to launch a second career as a consultant in emergency planning and disaster response. He has particular interest in a potential public-private initiative to mine natural disaster scenes for their educational value.”…
Can someone contact him, and ask him if he’s been following the pre-pandemic situation, and
consider the YouTube PSA ideas being discussed as a way to reach more people?
We sure need local public-private preparedness and commonsense (rebuilding in areas Mother Nature destroyes on a regular basis in ungood) and, can he get the public to consider disasters where they can not wait for federal/state/mutual aid, because, it ain’t comin’?
…”I want to change outcomes. In the hurricane program, that means saving lives. You can’t do that with the meteorology alone. You have to motivate people, especially the decision makers, to take the right action during the extreme event. Relationships with emergency managers and the media are extremely important.”… NOAA
He does sound like a very cool dude.
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