Reply #79: This is the part that made me weep [View All]

[Canadian Socialist]

"The Vancouver Urban Search and Rescue Team rescued a total of 119 people and gave medical assistance to 125. Team members were working 16-hour days, wading through stinking sewage and toxin-contaminated flood waters with hidden hazards like sharp objects, alligators and venomous snakes."

These heroes ... deserve at the very least, an Order of Canada medal. Or at the very very least, a broad-spectrum antibiotic shot.
edited to add: my sister was tagged to go, but there wasn't "room on the bus" so to speak. She's a B.N., R.N. w/ emerg experience. She is a sort of "back up"; i.e. she's in the Okanagan, and if the Van. team is overwhelmed, they would call on her, and her buddies, to fill in. She was all ready to go, but they said they didn't need her right now. However, and this a big however, she is seriously disappointed. She has made it her life to help, and she couldn't help (or at least, not hands-on help). She was making a joke about her disappointment, saying, "Well, I always wanted to see NO; just not this way?" Yes, I know... very dry humour.