This thread is a response to this question: I decided to take a look for some answers. I used the sort of new style NCR for the Google search tool, and the results produced a few surprises. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Disaster Preparedness Training Needs of Healthcare Workers at the US Department of Veterans Affairs Published online 2022 Feb 3. ***First Surprise: "to increase their willingness" - - - Are they for real? Somebody has made the decision to get into that career field, healthcare, but they need to have special training to be "willing" to head out the door of their abode to go to work in an emergency situation? ***Second Surprise: Before 2001 there were "few" that had training? Of course, I don't know what number "few" represents, but ... - - - Well, surprised. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents The above didn't hit any "Surprise" buttons, but raised a question of how many of our healthcare workers were actually eligible to take the training that is noted on that page. And all three of the links to these pages I am posting here are for your own furtherance of knowledge on the question raised by gorski in that other thread. (I added the blue color to those three 'IS' courses up there to show on that page those are links to further information on their site, BUT those are NOT links from here.) <><><><><><><><><><><><><><> https://www.who.int/emergencies/training Third paragraph under "Training for emergencies" ***Third Surprise: How many humans live on Earth? We'll leave out those few way up there outside of Earth's atmosphere. But down here on, or below, the ground I thought the number was way over one billion. You'll see that "ambitious" plan seems to be a hotlink, so you might want to go there and read more; but I wonder if that vocabulary "ambitious" is appropriate when maybe another billion (or more?) aren't in the WHO's plan to provide better protection.
My wife worked for the European agency dealing with such stuff (ECDC) and well... Not easy to reconcile the differences, even in the well off EU... esp. the political kind, shall we say...
To me, this is a good account of the wider, esp. USofA context: https://lithub.com/noam-chomsky-what-history-shows-us-about-responding-to-coronavirus/ Delegislating/liberalising, outsourcing, privatising, defunding the public sector relentlessly because that is the prevailing neoliberal/neocon dogma etc.
All the sordid details are pointing in the direction I understood to be true, together with many other well educated and informed people... All of it is now OPEN FOR ALL TO SEE AS TRUE!!!! "By the time the second wave came around and many thousands more had died, Johnson had learned nothing. He was saying that if you caught Covid you would “live longer”, that he didn’t buy “all this NHS overwhelmed stuff” and agreeing that “we should let the old people get it”. And our now prime minister, Rishi Sunak was ignoring all scientific advice and insisting people “Eat Out to Help Out”. But while he was posing in Wagamama’s, the chief medical officer was calling the scheme “eat out to help out the virus”, and our current chief scientific adviser was calling him “Dr Death the chancellor”. How can he be trusted to manage a pandemic in the future?" https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/covid-inquiry-bereaved-families-for-justice-boris-johnson/ "...the former deputy cabinet secretary laid out exactly why the “toxic culture” of sexism and “macho posturing” in Boris Johnson’s team was so damaging. So too was the “narrow perspective” they shared. According to MacNamara, key figures in Whitehall presided over an environment in which junior women were “talked over or ignored”. And yet, despite this “breezy confidence”, there was never any plan on how Number 10 would actually respond to Covid. A ‘Coronavirus: Action Plan’ published on 3 March was described as an “extraordinary document in retrospect” in MacNamara’s written evidence, because “so many of the assertions about how well prepared we were would turn out to be wrong only weeks later”." https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/covid-inquiry-this-week-boris-johnson-cummings-hancock-macnamara/ "The Swedish school": All based on a pack of lies!!!
Okey-dokey, I think I remember thinking I'd stay off this topic for a fair bit and see who else had thoughts on healthcare issues in the area of emergencies, and I think the about 30 plus days since your last post, gorski, .was a proper waiting period of time. Yes, the Covid trouble falls into this category of medical emergencies and there is a lot of studying needed as to how various national medical teams handled the emergency in their own AOs. But I was sort of hoping to get into some awareness of other medical emergency situations and I am not sure I remember how much I covered where I live and the sorts of emergencies we have to be prepared for, so let me do that now. I live in Japan. I have lived here for quite a few decades. And obviously one of the very big deals we worry about here are earthquakes, like our bad, bad one in 2011 that created that absolutely awful tsunami. But even a shake that doesn't cause a tsunami can still be a very serious problem, if it is a bad shake. Now there was a time when I was actually qualified to handle such emergencies. I had special training in the United States military so many years ago that covered advanced first aid and even after many years took some special classes while I was holding a safety officer slot in my VFW district here in the Kanto area that included advanced medical assistance before we could get a doc or other professional medical folks to take care of casualties. The problem I have now is I am very sure that I have forgotten too much to be a reliable safety officer now. Obviously, it would be great if I never have to be tested from now and forever more by an actual emergency, but none of us knows what Mother Nature might throw at us. And that would be absolutely true of so many other areas of our Earth. We might give thought to the west coast of the U.S. of. A. when we think about the earthquake possibility. But how about other types of medical emergencies caused by Mother Nature? One I remember from a few years off-and-on living in Kansas and Oklahoma is the tornado. Now that is very much like the earthquake, in that they can hit with little to no warning. And they can be so very powerful at times. So we have here in the MDL community a primary purpose the discussion of technical matters related to Internet technology, but I don't think it hurts to give thought to other matters of life, like this topic --- what to do in a medical emergency. One aspect of emergencies I am sure I remember correctly is that even a simple review of possibilities and how to react to a certain situation being privately reviewed can possibly save your life, if some very unfortunate bad thing happens to any of you; or maybe that sort of thought process even helping you to save the life of another human. I honestly do not think there are too many greater happenings possible in one's life than saving another human's life. And not just a loved one. Funny, too, as I write this --- it is a strange feeling to be able to state that one has saved lives. And as I think about this and memories enter back into my brain I remember that I have had my own life saved at least twice after --- well, the first time was on active duty; but the second time that comes to me as I type is a climbing accident in some mountains and my rope broke. Those fellas, to include a few friends, saved my life that afternoon. Strange to think about that all these so many years later. And, yes, I know a lot of folks feel that posting something like this in a community primarily dedicated to the discussion of technical matters, as noted --- well some folks think people who do these kinds of posts like I am doing here are a bit on the nutso side --- could be you are correct. Maybe I am just an old fart rambling along on a topic that just doesn't belong here. Maybe. Yes, so many folks can go through their entire lives and never face a situation where a fast reaction is necessary to save a life. But then there are those rare situations where the correct reaction actually does one of the greatest things any of you can do --- save a life.