Blog Stage 7

During hurricane season many U.S states where affected by the damage that nature brought. In the article “Volunteers are tired. Where's our government in Puerto Rico?” by Dr. Jennifer McQuade explains how the U.S lacked in providing assistance to Puerto Rico’s affected citizens. In this article Dr. McQuade cries out to the government for assistance “To be honest, I'm tired. We are all tired. This is not the job of volunteers or donors. These are American citizens who are suffering. This is the job of our government.” Volunteers often have limited amount of resources, but when you can invite a whole government it can really speed up the recovery of Puerto Rico’s people.  The Government quickly rushed to help the citizens affected by hurricane Harvey on the east coast of Texas, but why wasn’t there any assistance for Puerto Rico? There are countless amount of volunteers giving away their resources and time to help a needy community, the government outreach is disappointing because it is part of U.S territory, not officially but the government has a responsibility. Puerto Rico deserves as much priority as the states in the county. Just because the president visited them doesn’t mean that they will stop needing help, they will continue to need help as mentioned by Dr. McQuade. Volunteers are outreaching to social medias to help spread the awareness of need of more medical supplies, volunteer medical professionals to meet the needs of 10,000 or more people. Not enough is being done, this deserves attention from our government and this should not be something that should be ignored because at the end of the day our government looks like we are mistreating the citizens rather than sending immediate aid to the affected.