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This image reminds me of how mutual aid and communities keep each other fed, and safe, and how local practices are actually best practices. My own research， although not immediatley related to the specific public health concern of COVID, will focus on Indigenous food soverignty, particularly the right and autonomy to ferment and distribute alcohol (紅糯米酒) within the Amis community, and their current fight with the local health department on declaring whether or not their alcohol is "safe" for public consumption and distribution.

“The response to the disaster was recognized as a bureaucratic nightmare that, regardless of the intent of the federal and state governments, appeared to homeowners as a sign of their having been abandoned.”

"What I experienced was coming back to the devastation of the city. No grocery stores, no cell phone service, certainly no phone service, no regular phone service. We actually had to get other cell phones. You know, it was a ghost town."

'“Chronic disaster syndrome” thus refers in this analysis to the cluster of trauma-and posttrauma-related phenomena that are at once individual, social, and political and that are associated with disaster as simultaneously causative and experiential of a chronic condition of distress in relation to displacement."

The focus of this article is on the communities affected by the Chernobyl explosions and how it continues to devastate the surrounding area today. It furthermore defines a new society framed by the disaster and the problems they have had to encounter because of the radiation.

Responce to emergncies is not an imerging factor in this discussion, but is still relevant as abeing considered an aid worker in the medical feild. Te article is focused on health care providers that are more clinical in impoverished areas. 

The article compiles information gathered from various humanitarian organizations, mostly MSF,  in the US, France, and Morocco. The author includes first-hand experiences, and emphasizes her perspective. 

Either people post posts and you can respond. Or you can post something medically interesting or with a question and people can respond with advice or praise for your cool. 

Schmid looks back on many accounts of what the results were for other nuclear and non-nuclear events. She is trying best to figure out how to involve the "lay society" into the currently highly scientific disscussion. 

The article reviews the actions taken throughout hospitals during hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The review was based on the cases that a few patients were 'euthanized' by physicians in order to mitigate their suffering even though it was against protocol. It analyzes where the disconnect is between practitioner and community beliefs. 

A great number of the references from the articles bibliography reference many of Farmers other research papers. This article also researches many data collections in regards to the data which supports the push to a heavier emphasis on biosocial solutions. 

After the storms, many towns affected came up with ways to increase protection in infrastructure. Town officials working alongside exerpts have been working to upgrade their plans on making their communities more resilient to natural disasters. There have also many several funds and donations for the towns affected by Sandy; there have also been ways on how to help prevent flooding in such areas. In the article, it discusses how "the DEP has worked with local officials to design a proposed $230 million federally-funded system of flood walls along the Hudson River for Hoboken and parts of Weehawken and Jersey City."