Disasters are very hard to get your arms around early on. In the early stages of a disaster, you can either underestimate it, as FEMA did, or you can overestimate it, as the mayor did. |
I think we have a long way to go to better prepare this country. |
Nothing indicates that this was anything other than a natural outbreak. |
They don't get the notion that during a disaster one of the fundamental needs is taking care of the large number of patients. |