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Dear brother, it's heart wrenching to view the comparisons between flood responses between east and west. Incompetence is a plague upon the west. As member of the Medical Reserve Corps of my area, which was under FEMA but now under the us surgeon general, the ineptitude of those in command would come as no surprise to you or those in our geopolitical circle. I hope readers know incompetencey goes well beyond naturally disaster mitigation. I see it everywhere, in my volunteer pharmacy work and my main network engineering career. You will not receive proper care in any western hospital, the vast fiber networks enabling what citizens have come to expect and rely upon connecting every cell tower and bgp mode are unmaintained and crews are of course incompetent and clueless. The poor lowly pole monkey being able to use their brain to sort pairs of wires in the 90s and with just a basic grasp of SS7 are needed so bad they're coming out of retirement making 250k-1m a year consulting. Zayo, which began as a cia or dod or nsa front for PRISM deployment (snowden revealed prism im not leaking anything) has become so poorly managed they no longer stock critical line cards leaving sites down or in simplex for days or weeks while they fumble repairs. It's not money they're so well funded they're dropping with money. If I can identify a downed circuit and provide them with the precise location of a fiber cut with OTDR shots down to a millimeter and overlay it with GIS maps and give it to them they still cant make quick repairs. I could honestly a better telecom with a class of third graders from a rural state better. Their bloody us dollars simply can't buy competence, it's not just telecommunications and healthcare it's the entire west. Have a blessed day.

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Well, IMO things are better here in Oregon. All my cardio works been done with A-1 precision and great care. And most of our utilities here are public. We even have a training center just up hwy 101 from me that provides well trained entry level people so they have a good trade and can earn a living. Yes, I know it's bad elsewhere, which is why we chose to move to Oregon 20 years ago.

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