In which there is a plethora of zones
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zeborahI dithered, with my icecream post last night, whether to tag it 'earthquake' because as time goes by and we return to daily life, daily life remains tinged with earthquake. But this one is definitely all about the earthquake.
After September, every building in the city got red, orange, and green placards depending on its damage. After February we got them again. At work, photocopiers and other electronic equipment got red, orange and green stickers. There was a lot of triage going on.
After February, initially there was only one red zone, which was basically the CBD. It got subdivided into zones that allowed various levels of entry to business owners and the public, but it was The Red Zone.
Then there was the sewerage map. There's a huge red zone (most of the eastern city) which didn't so much mean that there'd never been problems elsewhere, jut if there were problems elsewhere they had to use portaloos rather than chemical toilets. Up to June, the red area was slowly getting encroached on with green, meaning you could stop using the chemical toilets and go back to porcelain. My house got into a green area, but there were some red area houses just across the street (plus once I'm in a habit it's easier to continue even when it's an annoying habit) so I held off. There was quite a lot of green, actually, but then the June 13 quakes happened and someone took a vast red paintbrush to it; now there's just a few green patches.
(Incidental note: red vs green really is not ideal for colorblind people, even if it is tradition. They should add texture.)
The new set of zones that everyone's talking about now, though, is zones for land. My land is zoned green, though I've got a number of colleagues in red (not worth rebuilding on, owners will get government compensation), orange (needs more assessment), or white (hasn't been assessed yet).
On government compensation for people who had the unmitigated gall not to be able to afford insurance like all decent citizens:
You've got a choice: you can give this person a lump sum now so they can get back on their feet immediately and be a productive member of society. Or you can give them installments later when they're on the welfare system. I'm pretty sure everyone knows that paying for something upfront is always cheaper than paying for it in installments, right? Same thing. Really you owe it to yourself and your taxes to just give them the money now, because it'll cost you less in the longterm.
(For some reason, lots of twitter folk could not understand this.)
After September, every building in the city got red, orange, and green placards depending on its damage. After February we got them again. At work, photocopiers and other electronic equipment got red, orange and green stickers. There was a lot of triage going on.
After February, initially there was only one red zone, which was basically the CBD. It got subdivided into zones that allowed various levels of entry to business owners and the public, but it was The Red Zone.
Then there was the sewerage map. There's a huge red zone (most of the eastern city) which didn't so much mean that there'd never been problems elsewhere, jut if there were problems elsewhere they had to use portaloos rather than chemical toilets. Up to June, the red area was slowly getting encroached on with green, meaning you could stop using the chemical toilets and go back to porcelain. My house got into a green area, but there were some red area houses just across the street (plus once I'm in a habit it's easier to continue even when it's an annoying habit) so I held off. There was quite a lot of green, actually, but then the June 13 quakes happened and someone took a vast red paintbrush to it; now there's just a few green patches.
(Incidental note: red vs green really is not ideal for colorblind people, even if it is tradition. They should add texture.)
The new set of zones that everyone's talking about now, though, is zones for land. My land is zoned green, though I've got a number of colleagues in red (not worth rebuilding on, owners will get government compensation), orange (needs more assessment), or white (hasn't been assessed yet).
On government compensation for people who had the unmitigated gall not to be able to afford insurance like all decent citizens:
You've got a choice: you can give this person a lump sum now so they can get back on their feet immediately and be a productive member of society. Or you can give them installments later when they're on the welfare system. I'm pretty sure everyone knows that paying for something upfront is always cheaper than paying for it in installments, right? Same thing. Really you owe it to yourself and your taxes to just give them the money now, because it'll cost you less in the longterm.
(For some reason, lots of twitter folk could not understand this.)
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