I don't know what is going on

[Horse with no Name]

What are they planning for some of these survivors?
Yesterday, our Mayor said that the nursing home that they were readying for the victims wasn't going to be needed.
Then today, I find out that they aren't opening Camp Maxey.
http://www.theparisnews.com/story.lasso?wcd=22517
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“Anyone who indicated they could travel will have to go through another screening process,” McAllister explained. “They want us to have 40,000 trained volunteers by Nov. 1 because those shelters are going to be in operation for awhile.”

Assignments at shelters in Texas or in surrounding states could come after background checks are completed, she said.

I am going to say again...we are in fairly close proximity of LA.
Why are shelters such as these (enabling them to have their own 4 walls)
being deactivated in favor of these mass shelters in the sports arenas?

Something isn't making sense.

[livetohike]

1. Background checks?

To stay in a shelter! That's going to take a lot of people power to check on all of those evacuees.

[Horse with no Name]

2. I think they are talking about the 40,000 volunteers

I wonder if they are going to turn away registered Democrats that volunteer?

[livetohike]

3. Good point.

I volunteered for four weeks during those massive wildfires we had out here in San Diego a couple of years ago. There were no shelters set up though, just relief efforts, FEMA and the Red Cross were here.

[eleny]

4. I think they want to keep them under lockdowns as long as possible

I think they want to cull out anyone who may be on the wrong side of the law or who has had a problem with the law in the past. Also keep the people from communicating and mingling with general populations as long as possible.

The government is scared stupid over first hand experiences being shared when that information could damage the administration. This is an administration characterized by secrecy. So, this situation must be driving them nuts.

In the end, they will lose. Experiences will be shared, books written, articles appearing in all sorts of venues like independent magazines, blogs, videos, films and other web sites.

This is the scariest damned shit ever in my lifetime of 59 years.

[Cleita]

5. I've got to admit I balked at the sports arena shelters from the

beginning. It reminded me of the number of victims worldwide who have been arrested, transported to soccer stadiums, and then tortured and executed. This is starting to have the feel to me of concentration camps.

The word concentration was used to mean just that. It was getting together all your victims in one place for efficiency. Not all concentration camps are prisoner camps. We had the Japanese concentration camps in WWII where American Japanese were herded together because it was easier to keep tabs on them. These were not prisoners but persons of the wrong ethnicity.

I don't like this at all. It is showing the true colors of our Fourth Reich and how they react in the face of an emergency.

[Bridget Burke]

6. The Astrodome was "locked down" briefly yesterday....

There was a rush connected with distribution of the first debit cards.

But the people at the Astrodome are usually free to come & go. It's located near the Medical Center, on the Metro--Houston's first & only light rail line. I rode Metro on Labor Day & it was full of people from the Dome--I think there were free passes. No doubt they wondered why downtown Houston was so empty & dull...

[Horse with no Name]

7. It's scary

Flu season is almost here. The majority of these people already have compromised immune systems, if not from stress, from other reasons.
I would think the last thing they would want is for these people to be amassed in just a few spaces.
This is sounding more and more like a human experiment in how to break the psyche of people.
They have no freedom. They have curfews. There is nowhere for them to have intimate relations. There is no way that men can comfort their wives in privacy. There is no way for the parents to "get a break" from the kids. They are being guarded. They are being watched.
This doesn't sound like the America I know. These people's basic civil rights are being violated underneath the veil of being given a safe haven.