• RattlerSix@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I’m not sure if you’re aware but when it became apparent that a big event was happening on the morning of Sept 11, the hospitals braced for mass casualties and… waited… and waited… and they never came.

    https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-they-first-knew-9-11-was-so-horrible-the-patients-didnt-come-11631298343

    There were only 20 people pulled from the rubble. Six were firefighters, and 5 were police.

    Nurses get a lot of well deserved praise. It’s just that in this case there wasn’t an uptick in emergency medical needs.

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      This is why right here. Had hospitals and makeshift medical areas been swarmed with patients, nurses would have responded and been praised for it, as they should. But there weren’t survivors, which highlighted how bad it was.

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        21 hours ago

        What about all the people that breathed in that toxic cloud or injured themselves trying to run away from the chaos? Surely many of them ended up in hospital.