Earthquake in China
Yesterday, there was a terrible earthquake near Chengdu, China. You have all seen the footage that I have just linked too on CNN over and over and over and over again I am sure. Here is some unseen, but infinately less dramatic footage of an evacuation of an office building. I personally saw the dead toll rise from 5 to its current number all last night.
NPR had been planning an on location week of broadcasts this week and had been maintaining a Chengdu centered blog for what feels like a month. So because of this, some of NPR's most well known hosts were in Chengdu during the earthquake. It was not until this morning, my time that they posted reports that drove home the gravity and the humanity of this grisley situation.
We have Melissa Block at the school that collapsed on as many as 900. It appears that she was there with her crew shortly after the collapse.
We also have a noticable shaken Robert Siegel outside a hospital in Chengdu. The photo Gallary is really worth checking out.
So here is the punchline: The Chinese government has responded with oaver 50,000 troops and all available police and Earthquake relief teams. President Hu flew to the province within hours of the disaster. And rescue workers will be worked into the night last night to look to survivors.
The Chinese are doing a better job than the US did during Katrina. And we are talking about a government that doesnt even pretend to like its own people!
And here is the second punchline (you didnt even know they made those did you ?): Historically it has been the united assumption at the Anti-Zombie League that the coming Zombie Apocalypse would mostly likely become uncontainable the moment that it spreads to China. The crushing poverty, rampant superstition, and the fact that governmental respondors have been rendered useless by an emphasis on development at any costs, will ensure that the zombie plague will spread.
The freakishly large population would make the plague unstoppable as hundreds of millions of China's population are turned into the ravenous undead and pour into the nieghboring third world states, like North Korea, Mongolia, or Burma, that are hardly equipted handle the situation with thier own impoverished institutions.
These recent events suggest that previous assumptions must be reexamined by the AZL.
NPR had been planning an on location week of broadcasts this week and had been maintaining a Chengdu centered blog for what feels like a month. So because of this, some of NPR's most well known hosts were in Chengdu during the earthquake. It was not until this morning, my time that they posted reports that drove home the gravity and the humanity of this grisley situation.
We have Melissa Block at the school that collapsed on as many as 900. It appears that she was there with her crew shortly after the collapse.
We also have a noticable shaken Robert Siegel outside a hospital in Chengdu. The photo Gallary is really worth checking out.
So here is the punchline: The Chinese government has responded with oaver 50,000 troops and all available police and Earthquake relief teams. President Hu flew to the province within hours of the disaster. And rescue workers will be worked into the night last night to look to survivors.
The Chinese are doing a better job than the US did during Katrina. And we are talking about a government that doesnt even pretend to like its own people!
And here is the second punchline (you didnt even know they made those did you ?): Historically it has been the united assumption at the Anti-Zombie League that the coming Zombie Apocalypse would mostly likely become uncontainable the moment that it spreads to China. The crushing poverty, rampant superstition, and the fact that governmental respondors have been rendered useless by an emphasis on development at any costs, will ensure that the zombie plague will spread.
The freakishly large population would make the plague unstoppable as hundreds of millions of China's population are turned into the ravenous undead and pour into the nieghboring third world states, like North Korea, Mongolia, or Burma, that are hardly equipted handle the situation with thier own impoverished institutions.
These recent events suggest that previous assumptions must be reexamined by the AZL.