[TXnMA]

It's not so much "dignity" as it is a sense of self-reliance. That's what's missing in this whole disaster.

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self-reliance -- the magic word!

How many scenes have you seen with bunches of folks sitting on their fat butts and whining that "Nobody ain't brought me no water for three whole days!"?

And how many scenes have you seen where someone has built a debris fire and boiled a big pot of water so that they -- and those around them -- could have a sterilized drink?

No self-reliance -- and no sense of community. Behold the virtues of the slavery of the "nanny entitlement state"!

[sandbar]

>>>And how many scenes have you seen where someone has built a debris fire and boiled a big pot of water so that they -- and those around them -- could have a sterilized drink?>>>

You can't boil some things out of water. YOU go ahead and drink that water that has industrial waste in it. I'll pass.

[Nov3]

And how many scenes have you seen where someone has built a debris fire and boiled a big pot of water so that they -- and those around them -- could have a sterilized drink?

The water is contaminated with chemicals etc. that boiling doesn't touch. If they get some rain . . . .