{"id":348,"date":"2012-05-30T17:48:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T17:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abetteremergency.com\/blog\/?p=348"},"modified":"2012-05-30T17:48:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T17:48:11","slug":"protecting-social-normalcy-is-the-disaster-mitigation-benefit-of-early-warning-really-disruption-neutral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/protecting-social-normalcy-is-the-disaster-mitigation-benefit-of-early-warning-really-disruption-neutral\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting Social Normalcy \u2013 Is the Disaster Mitigation Benefit of Early Warning Really Disruption Neutral?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social normalcy is a term to describe the efforts to return a community back to that pre-disaster conditions as soon as possible, both in terms of economic viability and letting people get back to their lives.<\/p>\n<p>This fascinating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/blog\/2012\/may\/30\/attempts-predict-earthquakes-harm-good\">article<\/a> raises a legitimate argument against mitigation of the impact of a disaster through early warning. It could be interpreted as suggesting that the short term gains of preventing mortality and morbidity would be offset by the disruption of the community pre-event\u2026.\u201dIt is likely that a large number of people would move away, businesses would shut down, and the economy would probably go into free-fall. The economic and social cost would be huge \u2013 and indeed might be greater than the cost of the earthquake itself\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What is the correct balance to strike between the disruption caused by early warning and the disruption caused by the event?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social normalcy is a term to describe the efforts to return a community back to that pre-disaster conditions as soon as possible, both in terms of economic viability and letting  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[11,26,28,33,36,38,39,56,60,81,82,83,84,102],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-best-practices","tag-disaster","tag-disaster-response","tag-earthquake","tag-emergency-management","tag-ems","tag-evacuation","tag-incident-response","tag-japan-reactor-disaster","tag-preparedness","tag-protection","tag-public-health","tag-public-safety","tag-tsunami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}