re: #221 idioma

If your choice was between anti biotics and consolation (imaginary or otherwise), which cargo would you prefer land on the island?

If you’ll look real, real closely, you’ll see that no such choice is necessary. A load of antibiotics can be delivered by Samaritan’s Purse as easily—not to mention more likely—as by the Bertrand Russell Society.

You are surely familiar with the different stages of relief in a disaster like this. First rescue, then sustenance—food, shelter, water—and longer term medical care, then rebuilding. Rebuilding includes healing shattered psyches as well as shattered buildings. I don’t have much patience for missionaries knocking on my door, and I don’t doubt that many Haitians don’t either, in normal times. But, this is not a normal time, in Haiti. Many will be glad of the missionaries’ presence.