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[–] drzoidberg@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I didn't know a single nurse that was at ground zero pulling out corpses with cadaver dogs while looking for anyone that might be alive in the rubble.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Alright. But once they're pulled out of the rubble, where do you you think they went?

[–] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day 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.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

In your own question you are identifying something that isn't a first responder. First responders arrive on scene. By being on scene the first responders were exposed to health hazards. Those hazards are what existing or proposed programs deal with.

[–] drzoidberg@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

You'll never get it. Nurses weren't literally sifting through thousands of corpses, hoping to find living people. Nurses weren't breathing in dust and ashen remains of those that were burned in the fires. First responders were dealing with the disaster as it happened. Hence why they're called first responders. You're aftercare. Once the first responders rescued people, they were sent to doctors and nurses, so they could do their jobs. Meanwhile, first responders went back into the rubble to maybe find someone alive, but mostly finding corpses. Many mangled beyond anything you've ever seen before.

First responders are talked about more cause, quite frankly, they were doing more. How many corpses can you say you had to push pass, so you can get to the living person that was next to them, or grab the hand of the person you hoped was alive, only to drag a corpse missing it's left side. How many broken crushed corpses did you have to drag out of a hole in the ground so the coroner could do their job, and you could go back in and pull out another corpse, or if you're really lucky, someone that lived.