Categorized as a federal disaster. is that the right call, given the fact that this is, in all likelihood, going to be an ongoing situation for us to be grappling with? my own feeling is that most of the measures that are going to be taken in response to these hazards are going to be initiated locally. it would be nice to have those officers and those officers well-funded. it would be nice to know that they have the support of the federal government. but it s not primarily, i think, going to be a federal response it s gonna be a local response. what we really need is an understanding at all levels from a rhetorical, through the political, down to the individual, that we are living in a very different world. and we are not going to be able to respond to the threats of this new world in the same way or at the same scale that we responded to threats of the past. and we need every policymakers and every leader at every level to understand that quite clearly clearly, to talk to constitu ....