CL wrote:
> On 03/16/2011 02:12 PM, mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> > chuckers wrote:
> >> On Wednesday, March 16, 2011 8:30:28 AM UTC+9, The 2-Belo wrote:
> >>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/anxious-foreigners-flee-japan/2011/03/15/ABrlvnW_story.html
> >>>
> >>> (Warning: In this rant, "you" means "those who are pissing me off in this
> >>> article", not you personally, unless you're one of the people in this article.)
> >>>
> >>> This pisses me off. A lot.
> >>>
> >>> After all the posturing, all the blogging, all the whining about not being
> >>> treated as equals blah blah racist police state, they "get as far away as
> >>> possible" the moment shit gets real.
> >>>
> >>> If you live here, live here for better or for worse. Don't put your dog in a
> >>> boarding kennel and catch the first flight out like a damned coward. If you're
> >>> in Tohoku and have to evacuate, go southwest, get out of the danger zone, but
> >>> don't abandon the whole country! People need help, and they're going to need
> >>> lots of it, for a long time. Volunteer! Contribute! Find someone who needs a
> >>> hand. The locals can't hop a flight back to Blighty the minute something catches
> >>> fire, so neither should you. If you're so serious about being a resident, act
> >>> like one.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I am, more or less, with you on this one.  I am here for the long haul and I have no intention of giving up on Japan and fully intend to be around for the rebuilding.
> >>
> >> That being said, however, the spousal unit is going up a frickin' wall!  There are radiation worries for the sprog being so young etc and what sort of effect it is going to have in the long run.  I am perfectly willing to be left behind and have the rest of the family flee to relative safety somewhere else but the spouse won't leave me behind.
> >>
> >> After word of the radiation got out and a BIG family meeting yesterday, we were about minutes away from the next plane out at the spouse's urging.  After some more details about how small the radiation bump actually was, this got calmed down to my just calling up the office and saying that I would be working from home rather than dealing with the crowds.
> >
> > I do wonder about the recommendation for people in the danger zone to
> > stay inside their homes.  Like radiation can't get into homes.
>
> Well, duh!  Bad people can't get into a locked house and radiation is
> bad.  So, like, do the math, dude.

What bad people?  There's been no reports of looting or anything.  Not
sure what kind of "math" you learned, "dude".

Mike