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- My name is Wanda Baker somehow my sons name popped up instead of mine. Anyways, I love your show I watch it all the time and you will probably here from me often. I recently saw the episode on Katrina and how the owners of St. Rita's nursing home were being blamed for the deaths of their residents. I have to say that I am sick to death of people always passing the buck when it comes to taking responsible for things that happen. I like your news team you have but in this case I wish they had been a little more aggressive. If it had been me I would have asked the relatives of these victims "Where in the hell were you?" They claim to love their relatives and were quick to blame the two who were willing to commit to helping the elderly but if they were so concerned why did they not go to the nursing home to make sure their loved ones would be evacuated or better yet offer their help. They had to have known that there was a strong possibility that their loved ones could be in danger. It is so easy to always blame someone else but it takes a lot of guts to stand and admit that you and you alone just may have been responsible for terrible things that happen. Of course, how much can you really care about someone else especially your loved ones when you can just dump them in a nursing home because your to busy and to selfish to spend your time caring for them. I'm sorry this is so long but I was so angry watching that episode I wanted the relatives in the hot seat and I wish I could have been the one to put them in it! As for the two who wanted to prosecute that couple shame on you- shame on you! Thank God in the end it turned out with the right verdict but its sad that there are lawsuits pending and two good people's lives are ruined.... Thank-you for allowing me to express myself.
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- Although this was a predicted event as seen in many scientific journal, engineering studies and by the Corps of Engineerinf themselves. Lets not forget the school bus full of elderly people who burned to death cause of a spark catching on to someones O2 tank and the whole bus with all the elderly on it were killed in an inferno.
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- True Statement Quote:
When visiting New Orleans in May of 2005 we were told that if a storm took a direct hit on New Orleans the levees would break because Nutra Rats had burrowed into the levees weakening them to a state of disrepair and the Government knew of the problem at that time.So if you want to point fingers and lay blame the Army Corps of Eng. may be a beginning. Katrina was the straw that broke the weakened levees.
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This is well documented on the discovery channel! and scientific magazines. You want to blame someone blame Congress the Levee problem has been known about for years and years; they failed to appropriate the money to fix the levees. The Corps was moved from the Levee mission a couple of years before Katrina in a series of downsizing the government (cause taxes are bad.) So while the rest of the country might be able to put shoe on their children''s feet; New Orleans became a death trap for many because Congress failed to put money into our infrastructure. It is well documented that Corp wanted to fix the levees but Congress and other leadship bodies failed the people of this country and everyone is pointing fingers in the wrong directions; this one really belongs to the executive bodies of leadership. - Reply to this comment
- What if the Maganos evacuated everyone and after moving them back the levee breeched would that be their fault? They survived Katrina not the breech.The water hit like a tsunami that caused the deaths. Hindsight is 20/20 but even in this case no one could have foreseen the levee breech. How can you blame someone for that?
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- This was a tragic NATURAL DISASTER. I don''t believe for a second that the Manganos anticipated the magnitude of this disaster, and they should NOT have been charged with homicide. My heart breaks for all involved, but it adds to the tragedy to blame the Manganos. I cannot imagine why a mandatory evacuation was not issued (though it sounded like it was because of a loss of revenue for the town... and why aren''t the victims'' families outraged by that?), and I am dumbfounded as to why our government didn''t do more to help. Is it because our government officials, who are elected to make wise decisions on our behalf, did not anticipate the magnitude of this natural disaster? Yet the Manganos are expected to? The wrong people were on trial.
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- Let%u2019s look at the truth in the situation. First of all to onesuegibson who said that people on %u201Clife support%u201D are only in ICUs: You are WRONG! There are people that require advanced medical technology to live including ventilators, that attend school, work and live at home. The only people indicted in the hospital and nursing home deaths were the Manganos. There were more than 200 Katrina-related deaths at four New Orleans-area hospitals and 13 nursing homes. Yes, that is correct 13 nursing homes including Lafon with 22 deaths, so clearly other nursing homes felt the same way the Manganos did. Testimony during the trial showed that the majority of the nursing homes in the path of the storm (36 of 57) did not evacuate. Finally: To all the families who lost loved ones at St. Rita%u2019s: You have reported that you were told that they would be leaving, but according to your own comments you did not know where your family members were. Did you ask the following questions? 1. Where are you evacuating to? 2. How can I contact you to find out where my family member has been taken? 3. Here is my cell phone number: Please have the new facility call when my loved one arrives. 4. When should I expect to hear that my loved one has safely arrived at the new location? Simple, responsible, loving questions. Let%u2019s look at who should really be blamed for the disaster that was Katrina and not blame everything on a single couple.
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- Harold Dow missed a glaringly important point in this story. He allowed the Mandanos and their attorney to repeatedly refer to potentially having to "pull the plug" on some residents without exploring what that means. People on life support do not live in nursing homes; they are exclusively in Intensive Care Units in hospitals. I can''t anything a nursing home resident would depend on that uses electricity. Oxygen could be provided by portable tanks.
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- I would like to add that their are two businesses that I would never want to be in. One is the nursing home business and the other is child care.
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- This was a terrible, terrible tragedy and I feel bad for the families that lost their loved ones. But in life we have to make choices. It''s always easy to look back after the fact and say they should have done this or they should have done that. What if they had tried to move all of those people and they died while being moved? Their is no right or wrong answer for a lot of decisions that we all make every day. I guess that is why we have lawyers.
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- Just curious...does anyone know when an "evacuation plan" is REQUIRED to go into effect? In the show they said it is required to be filed each year, but didn''t specify when it is REQUIRED by law to be used? Or is there no law on that? There should be! Even though I don''t feel the Mangano''s bear the sole responsibility, they do bear the responsiblity of a good/accurate/safe evacuation plan that should be enacted and should work. Also, if the other nursing homes did evacuate, wouldn''t the Manganos have known this? Wouldn''t they feel they should go too? Don''t these Nusing homes communicate/share info? If one is to go wouldn''t they call the other and say ..do u need help...u should go, etc, etc, etc?
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