OntheWilderSide

KW: I understand that so many people lost their lives, and so many people were hurt from the September 11th 2011 tragedy, that the anniversary date must hold a certain solemness, and respect for the dead.

Though, the morning after this incident that happened 10 years ago, perhaps we could remember the truly important lessons that we learned, in hopes that something like 9-11, the lead-up mistakes, and the follow-up mistakes, do not happen again.

Below is an in-depth article from this week, which explores health lessons from 9-11.

I also wish that people would take the time to explore and understand other stories, such as: How did we allow the government and the Motorola corporation to make such bad decisions about a big radio contract, so that many fireman died who did not have to on that day? How come no one reenacts the tragedy of someone shouting “Get Out” into a radio, when the fireman inside a collapsing building could not to hear the warning? There is a link to a March 2011 story about the FDNY and the Motorola radios: here. (It is difficult to find the original, 9-11 radio discussion on line. This article is a follow up, to more problems after 9-11. There is a comment about the 9-11 situation: here.)

Now, the 9-11 health care lessons learned and not learned story from 9/9/2011:

(excerpt from) How U.S. Learned the Wrong Health Lessons From 9/11
wired.com
by Brandon Keim

In the fall of 2001, the United States was confronted by two major public health challenges: the anthrax mailings and threat of a biological attack, and the subtler but ultimately more harmful plume of toxic dust that that rose from Ground Zero. The country was prepared for neither. Read more »

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