the event will take its toll at any rate.
Yes, and most of the normal charity organization do gooders of our era, NGOs and UN-volk will, I strongly suspect, make it a considerably worse situation than would have accrued had we turned it over to US Military from the gitgo.
The aid on ‘day one’ is whatever can be done, but soon thereafter has to switch to aid and rescue provided with civil order, and soon then has to become a combination of open-handed aid and tight-handed aid. You have to get the people to work, and if able, work hard. That’s how you keep moral up, in such horrendous conditions.
Water and emergency medical stuff is open-handed. After that — you pay or you work for it, as you are able.