• bitteroldcoot@piefed.social
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        3 days ago

        Flood zones are notorious for spreading Infectious disease. If he has been in the flood waters and/or the rain splashed any of the flood water up onto his food he gets infected. Yes the rain is washing him, but still, eating in a flood zone on top of used flotation gear is a bad idea. As recent lettuce based infections have shown. Some things don’t wash off with water.

        https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11627491/

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          Your heart’s in the right place, I appreciate that, but it’s more dangerous during emergency work like this to pass out or make a stupid mistake from skipping a meal. Infection is treatable, death is not. It’s not practical or logistically possible to simply evacuate every time someone needs to eat either. In situations like this they are likely running long shifts with teams swapping out at set intervals. Trust that these are working professionals that have been trained in how to keep themselves safe.

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    They don’t even manage to give him a somewhat dry place. That’s embarrassing

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      Wow. You obviously have never been in a dire situation, under pressure, a high stakes situation before.

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      sudden downpour

      There needs to be a Lemmy wide rule that if you comment without reading the article, you’re instantly banned.

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        If your relief efforts dont involve tents or something similar you fucking failed

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          Seriously? You think tents are valuable in a fucking typhoon?

          A typhoon is the eqivalent of a hurricane, numbnuts - you’d look like the dumbest motherfucker alive setting up tents. Which, I suppose, tracks considering your takes.

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          I assume where he is in the image, that’s exactly where he needs to be at that moment. So you think there should be a tent right where he is, yeah? Ok, sounds like a priority, then. We’ll need about five more guys with sandbags on my man here so he can drip dry while he finishes his lunch. Hup hup, you heard the man!

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        Whoever was planning the typhoon response and is organising the operation.