Re: New Zealand volcano: At least five dead after White Island eruption
Originally Posted by
Lindyloo
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But surely you have to let people use their own common sense. If you dictate what they can or cannot do, you take away their risk choices. Then you get into a society which has evolved today where someone trips on an uneven pavement and sues the council; someone walks down a slipway and slips!! ......so sues the council.
It was a volcano they were visiting - they ***must*** have been aware of an element of risk............they undertook to take that risk. All very sad, but it was at their own risk.
That's PC talk if ever I've heard heard of it. If you walk into a live crater you have a death wish, so if your life is so cheap then go ahead. Who cares about the ones you leave behind,!!
Walking into a crater is far from the same as tripping on an eneven pavement.
The aftermath; quote'; An emergency doctor treating burn patients injured in the Whakaari/White Island eruption has described horrific scenes at Waikato Hospital.
"It's one of the most challenging things to look at because you know the patients are in so much pain and will be fighting for their life for the next two or three weeks and even then they could die," John Bonning, president of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, told the Herald.
His comments come as New Zealand authorities import 120sq m of skin from the United States and Australia to help treat the victims' terrible burn injuries.