During 9/11 we had so many waiting hospitals, triage units, blood donors...the tragedy was that there were just about no survivors to treat. Here we have THOUSANDS of survivors -- and it's everything else that is so screwed up right now...
Of course the logistics are quite different...but it is disturbing to note that frustrating contrast.
GOD, HELP!
And of course, after 9/11, it took the left three or four months to get back to hitting their anti-Bush stride!
but remember one key difference with what you are describing in manhattan after 9-11:
- the construction workers, iron workers, transportation crews - they just showed up, no one asked them to come, signed contracts with them for the work - they went on their own right away.
- same thing with the hospitals, even though there were few survivors, those staffs didn't wait for anyone to tell them to mobilize, they just went to work.
- same thing with the ferry operators - every single boat capable of carrying passengers just headed for lower manhattan on their own to take people out.
so yes, there were big differences.