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9 Dec, 7 tweets, 2 min read
IAEM released some recommendations for the first 100 days of the Biden administration related to emergency management.

#EMGTwitter

iaem.org/Portals/25/doc…
"The President-Elect should announce his nominee for FEMA Administrator before the end of this year."

IAEM has strong "hurry the hell up" energy.
Not all heroes wear capes, some heroes use capital letters to emphasize their point.
Truly.
This can also be summarized as "literally just use the damn Stafford Act".
Yes, everyone is still mad about ICE stealing FEMA's money.
Well, my list is longer than IAEMs but this is not a bad start.

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9 Dec
I appreciate the point of this graphic and I do not want to in anyway minimize the horrific number of COVID deaths however... we have got to talk about where y’all pull death toll numbers from and how yall choose which events to include... 🤦🏼‍♀️👀
Okay, real quick because this is a learning opportunity.

Comparing death tolls between war, terrorism, pandemics, and acute disaster/ catastrophes is wildly problematic but let’s say you want to do that, fine but there are some things to be aware of…
First, it is notoriously difficult (if not impossible) to get accurate death tolls for these large-scale events. I wrote about some of the issues here (this is all like x10 for events that are now 100 years old, but sure) disaster-ology.com/home/2018/6/4/…
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8 Dec
The Maine Climate Council released it's four-year plan for climate action in Maine.

"It might be easier to put off climate action until
calmer times. But Maine can’t wait. Maine shouldn’t wait. And Maine won’t wait."

maine.gov/future/sites/m…
Emergency Management was included as one of the working groups so on that alone Maine is leaps and bounds ahead of some other places.
Like, hi.

This is a 🔥 co-chair list for a community resilience planning, emergency management, and public health working group.

You absolutely love to see it.
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16 Nov
Oh, I'm fine. Just having a near daily meltdown over the lack of integration between public health and emergency management research.
Sry to my colleagues who specialize in bridging the two. Whew. Y'all have your work cut out for you!
Truly a constant back and forth of "well the emergency management literature leads me to believe we should do X but the public health literature apparently says Y."

All the other disciplines showing up with their input:
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11 Nov
Hello everyone!

Hitting play in just a few minutes!

Tweet along with #DATM

I’m an assistant professor in the emergency management program at Massachusetts Maritime Academy. A bunch of my Intro to Emergency Management students will be joining us tonight as well!
"Things aren't as bad as they could be" is very close to my favorite saying "things can always get worse"! #DATM
Same energy. #DATM
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10 Nov
People keep sending me this and omg, no, I have no idea why Mainers are eating side salads.

My family ate pizza for Thanksgiving last year so... 🤷‍♀️
Honestly, this seems like the best explanation other than that this map is just made up.

BREAKING: Salad map makes local news

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9 Nov
I've gotten a lot of questions this weekend about what I mean by “comprehensive emergency management reform” and also what Biden could immediately do for emergency management.

So, let me do a thread where I vaguely answer.
First, I use the term “comprehensive emergency management reform” to indicate that we need massive changes to how we approach mitigating, preparing, responding, & recovering from all types of disaster (climate-related or not). This means different things to different people.
My guiding light is that we need EM to be effective, efficient, & just. So any change that would move us towards that goal is something I would include here. I emphasize comprehensive bc we have a tendency to do piecemeal adjustments that don’t fully solve our problems.
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