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Comment on playing victim by Vicki Lane

Vicki Lane — Sun, 19 May 2013 03:33:41 +0000

Good for you! Sounds like an interesting and worthwhile experience.

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Comment on playing victim by Karen (Betty Bear)

Karen (Betty Bear) — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 01:22:04 +0000

I think the ability to keep a cool head would be really important for that kind of thing. We all have different gifts and you are certainly using yours for the betterment of us all!

Comment on playing victim by lunarmom

lunarmom — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 05:34:23 +0000

We thought about becoming part of our local volunteer EMT team, in the last house/neighborhood, then we realized that I’m not very compassionate under certain circumstances (and am shitty in an emergency). Plus ya know, Dan does this for a living, so we never followed up. Yipee for you and that boy of yours, very community-minded!

Comment on playing victim by Karen (Betty Bear)

Karen (Betty Bear) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:00:53 +0000

It was long bits of boring waiting around with crazy, chaotic bits of action. I’ve thought about what I would do in an emergency situation, but I had never really taken into account the noise of everyone screaming and crying and how hard that would be to focus with. The CERT people said it was really hard to not help the screaming people and help the ones in more serious condition first.

Comment on playing victim by Karen (Betty Bear)

Karen (Betty Bear) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:58:41 +0000

It was fun. And the practice is good for knowing what to do and preventing panic so, yeah, it’s a good thing.

Comment on playing victim by inkgrrl

inkgrrl — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:00:11 +0000

Sounds like fun, in a very educational way. I went through CERT training about 10 years ago here in LA, but let my participation lapse when the hardcore health issues started up. Thanks for the reminder that it’s better to do something right than add to the victim list.

Comment on playing victim by Skye

Skye — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 03:01:09 +0000

Interesting. I was going to go to CERT training back in Houston, but it ended up not working out for me at the time. I’m still interested in it. Although it was boring, you and boy child did a wonderful thing playing victims. And I bet it was crazy with everyone getting into character. It would be difficult to stay focused and really be able to help in a real situation like that.

Comment on Prejudice by Karen (Betty Bear)

Karen (Betty Bear) — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 01:01:21 +0000

I do too. I have a really hard time knowing that my mind is making assumptions about people that I wouldn’t want it necessarily to make if I were conscious of what it was doing. But I guess at least being aware that assumptions are being made is better than not.

Comment on Prejudice by lunarmom

lunarmom — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:15:45 +0000

I have such a hard time with these words, due to ignorance (which seems to be rampant right now). Great post!