I don’t have time to read the whole thing right now, but I am in contact with a lot of people and everything I hear says the bottleneck is not bureaucracy, it’s transportation. The pipelines are just not that wide right now.
There are only so many undamaged roads and railways so the ones that are usable are being strictly controlled. They have to be. A major traffic jam at this point could take days to unsnarl and there has been so many major aftershocks in the last few days that nobody is even counting them anymore.
So, while it’s heartening that so many people want to rush to the scene and help, I think that criticism of the government efforts are, at best, misplaced.
Could thing be better? Obviously. Nothing made by human hands or formulated by human brains is ever perfect. But this kind of Monday morning quarterbacking isn’t that helpful.
Thank you for your experienced, on-scene observations, which I trust more than a TIMES reporter.
I have stayed away from any finger-pointing, blame, scandal, scares, etc. in relation to catastrophe-sticken Japan.
It did and does bother me, though, to know people have been so cold and hungry while displaced. The Japanese people are extraordinary in the way they handle this. I just hope government is not being too polite or proper.
I take it you and yours are doing okay...??