Condi offers 2,000 plastic sheets? Leftover from Homeland Security

[partylessinOhio]

“Emergency Planning and Disaster Supplies”?

Some just need food and water and medicine and shelter, CONDOHO!


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US unveils 30 mln usd aid package for Lebanon

Last Updated: 24-July-2006 19:00:08

Assistant Secretary of State David Welch, speaking to reporters travelling with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her Middle East trip, said the US package would include 100,000 medical kits, 2,000 plastic sheets and 20,000 blankets.

He said he expected a total international aid package to reach at least 100 million dollars, adding: \"It may go as high as 150 mln usd.\" The experience \"of being in Beirut makes it very clear there are some series humanitarian problems,\" he said as Rice arrived in Tel Aviv after making a surprise visit to Lebanon.

http://www.sharewatch.com/story.php?storynumber=167429

From whitehouse.gov


(snip)

What to do to prepare for a chemical or biological attack

* Assemble a disaster supply kit (see the “Emergency Planning and Disaster Supplies” chapter for more information) and be sure to include:
* Battery-powered commercial radio with extra batteries.
* Non-perishable food and drinking water.
* Roll of duct tape and scissors.
* Plastic for doors, windows and vents for the room in which you will shelter in place—this should be an internal room where you can block out air that may contain hazardous chemical or biological agents. To save critical time during an emergency, sheeting should be pre-measured and cut for each opening.
* First aid kit.
* Sanitation supplies including soap, water and bleach.

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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/02/20030207-10.html

[China_cat]

1. plastic sheets are good for wrapping bodies in.

[rzemanfl]

2. Beat me to it. n/t

[partylessinOhio]

3. I know that. But is that the immediate need? 2000 bodies?

Duct tape for sealing?

We need to stop the killing.

[calimary]

4. Wow. Way to go, contradicta! THAT'S what they need, isn't it?

When they can't get out to shop for Ferragamos...

:grr:

[jean]

5. ah yes, she's sensitive to 'the birth pangs of a new Middle East' - lots

of use for plastic sheeting during the 'birth' process.

[sutz12]

6. I think plastic sheets would be for hospital beds...

to keep the blood and body fluids from ruining the mattresses. Once that happens, the mattress would be irrevocably tainted, medically.

I hate to be a buzz kill on the humorists, but this might be a legitimate contribution that we seldom hear of.