In Japan, Fukushima plant went kaplooey and contaminated air and water in 2011. The USA and other ‘civilized’ countries of the world, make no mention of how tens of thousands of elderly in Japan were abandoned in hospitals and homes in the exclusion area. WHere are the stories by MSM, where are the stories of how the US and other countries went in to save the vulnerable and venerable elders? There are no stories, because the US and other countries did not go to help save the elders, except generically, once they were dead.
Why a year later when the need in Japan is still so great, do we hear NOTHING from those running for US office about the terrible predicament of one of our Allies, that is, Japan. What does it say about our House and Senate that the public ‘officials’ see nothing, say nothing about this. And if/as they do not, what does that bode for the elders here in various ways. One cant even muster a concern about literally thousand and thousands of the vulnerable including little children, handicapped persons in Japan?
The image is of the first many thousands of caskets of those who died in the disaster. Many of the elderly were abandoned in their beds with their tubes of medicines and saline and morphine pumping into them to control their pain. When the med bags ran out, there was no more. Many of the old people died in agony.
Surely that is a worthy story to tell and keep as I call it, above the waterline. Surely it is also an object lesson here in the states to demand of the House and Senate and all their jillions of dollars spent on pet projects, to give crisp and precise accountability about REALLY what is planned as resource and IMMEDIATE aid for ALL of us, not just the senators and the congresspoeple and their fully supplied elite bunkers–should natural disaster hit.
Preparedness. My hunch is all the limo drivers and housekeepers and fleet washers are more prepared to help the vulnerable than the House and Congress and all they set up as ‘departments’ that seem in our day and age, so out of touch, including slow as molasses in January regarding the power of electronic realities, let alone hand to hand helps to the people.
This was the scene a year ago in Japan:
–The elderly are being abandoned to die in Japanese hospitals and care homes devastated by the tsunami amid a worsening humanitarian and nuclear disaster.
–Hundreds of thousands of victims have been made homeless, with more than 400,000 struggling to survive in emergency shelters with no power and little food or water.
–As the official death toll hit 6,539, it emerged that soldiers found 128 pensioners deserted by medical staff at a hospital in Iwaki, six miles from the Fukushima nuclear power station and inside the exclusion zone around the plant which continues to spew radiation into the atmosphere.
–Most of the abandoned patients were in coma, and 14 died shortly after they were moved to an emergency centre in a nearby gym.