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i just read a thread on it where DUers are back and forth between doomsaying and naysaying the doomsaying. there is just so much we don't know. much more, i think, than what we do know, though i could be wrong about that.
but how it ultimately turns out is the foregone conclusion. we just can't see what it is. nor can we do a gawd damn thing to change it. if the worst happens, everything that had to occur for it to happen has happened or is happening on an ongoing basis. if the worst is averted the result is still not good. and we are helpless.
we're just helpless. like that old bromide doctors use for patients with a poor prognosis. hope for the best and plan for the worst. that's about all we can do. for the people directly affected their options are even more limited. listen to the officials who seem to be the blind leading the blind with all the stories coming out. listen, but should they believe? is there reason to panic?
i personally feel that if i was in their position and had the means to leave Japan i would do so, or at least abandon that area. but how many can possibly have those means. and many if not most people are connected to where they live by more than economics. i used to be myself until economics drove me across the country away from my lifelong home, my daughter's grave, my oldest son and all of my grandchildren. now i place a higher premium on the quality of my life than on the place it is being conducted.
i see this disaster kind of like the tsunami but in extreme slow motion. nonetheless i personally am convinced that the destruction will ultimately rival or eclipse that caused by the two precipitating disasters. no expert. just how i feel.
that, and helpless.
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