Kathleen Tierney Whether Quotations

The big question in everybody's mind is whether entities that proved themselves incompetent to handle Hurricane Katrina can become competent by the summer of 2006. So far, we've seen no evidence of that.

The question is not whether we need something like the Red Cross, but whether its capacity is scalable to true catastrophes and multiple disaster events, ... Now we're talking about a pandemic. Where would the Red Cross be?