9/11 Preparedness

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The face of preparedness has changed since the event of 9/11. Prior to 9/11 we thought that the most destructive disaster that could happen to us would be from a natural disaster. Preparing for natural disasters is something what we have been doing for a long time but now we have the new challenge of preparing for the possibility of terrorism, cyber attacks, and pandemics. Since 9/11 there has been much preparation for the event of these hazards, but with all this preparation are we prepared as a nation? Presidential Policy Directive 8 Presidential Policy Directive 8 (PPD-8) was written to push along the goal of national preparedness. The goal is to bring together the shared responsibility of all levels of government, the private sector,…show more content…
When it comes to natural disasters, we may feel like that we are sufficiently prepared but in areas that inundated with natural disasters they may not have enough time to prepare. Being prepared for act of terrorism is a different story, the government has taken many steps in preparedness for this type of incident but individually, we are not prepared. We should individually and collectively as a community prepared for the worst case scenario. Pandemics and cyber attacks are something that the different levels of government prepared for, but again individually, we do not. This is something that we should prepare for just as suggested for act of terrorism…show more content…
What is lacking is the goal of community preparedness and resilience. People are busy with their everyday lives may not have to understanding of what being prepared for a disaster really means. Some assume that they are shielded by the safety of the government to take care of them if/when an incident should occur. PPD-8 was written with the intention of ensuring that everyone from the federal government to the individual be prepared for a variety of hazards, not enough is being done to embrace the individual to take the necessary steps. More emphasis has been made in preparing individuals for natural disaster as the media or local emergency managers put more of an effort into the cause as it is something we are more prone to encounter. Terrorism, cyber attacks, and pandemics are something that most of us can assume we may never encounter but nonetheless we need to be prepared. Finding information to prepared oneself for one of these incidents can easily be obtained from the internet, unless it is from a reliable source, some of the information can be unreliable. There should be more education on these subjects for the general public from local emergency planners in a community. These types of incidents need to be drilled and trained for just as we prepared for natural disasters.

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