we were just simply unprepared to deal with the pandemic. a big part of that was that we underinvested in public health, the kind of surveillance and ability to act very quickly when it became apparent that we had a pathogen that was spreading and spreading very quickly. we outline in the report a number of problems from the lack of testing that was not available until the cdc was able to get new testing, get it out in the field to be able to track that. there were certainly communication issues. you bring up the trump administration. it was difficult to communicate when they started taking over communications. critical public health information was not getting out to folks like it should have. there were supply chain issues. clearly, we had outsourced far too much of our critical medical supplies from personal protection equipment to just basic medical supplies. we need to make sure we are producing those materials here in the country. in fact, i put out a report back
early on. i think we forget how important it is to communicate, as we said, notjust to socialise and make friends, but to learn and access educational opportunities. that s a really interesting point you just made there about children with mental health difficulties at a later stage often having communication issues. do you have a view on which one comes first? they are obviously wrapped up together. you can imagine if you are struggling to communicate your needs and make friends, that will inevitably affect your well being, so it s very much foundational skill to communicate and it is a door to everything we do as human beings, whether it is to make friends or communicate with family, to access your home language or culture in your home language or culture in your community or to learn, so inevitably it affects your mental health and well being and if you re not able to make friends, that s
technology. they re going back and forth through these channels to open up these lanes so that boats can safely bring people to and from and eventually, hopefully, get the commercial operations back up and running, get the ports back up and running so the economy can begin to recover here as well, chris. that really boggles the mind. guad, there may be people who still don t have the ability to reach neighbors, friends, family members. is that better now? what are you seeing and hearing on the ground? is guad able to hear us? reporter: okay. we had some communication issues. chris, i can hear you, yes. so just before i was on, dasha was talking about the efforts that are being made in these hardest hit areas. so that s the area where there is trouble with communication, where they are using search and rescue teams to evacuate people. i wanted to mention there s entire communities where people, you just asked me about communication. there s other communities just like those where th
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there. i took a look from overhead. under water. i m going to bring you here real quick, we ll have jason, our photographer, pan over. you can see this. 50-plus yards of water over here. there is a current, and again, this is not a river. the river is supposed to be along that tree line according to the gentleman we spoke with. this is supposed to be street. again, we re talking about upwards of 20 feet of water in some areas here. looks like the water is starting to recede slightly. as you alluded to, we re having all kinds of communication issues out here, as well. people are potentially not able to get access by phone to help. so we ve seen helicopters going through the area. i ve seen at least two people in this neighborhood who are still there. they weren t shouting out for help or anything. one person who lives here we re told was just staying in the home to be with her pets. and up the road we met a couple that s living on the second floor of the first floor had waist-deep wat