Public Relations and Unrefined Grubbiness
Chilean authorities are understandably concerned about the state of health of the 33 trapped miners. Now, while they remain deep underground, and while rescue crews in three separate digs are attempting to reach them and to extract them from the bowels of the Earth. And later, when they are finally hauled up from the dank, dark dungeon that has been their home for an astounding number of days, weeks, months.The exhilaration of being free again to breathe clean, fresh air, to feel the air surrounding and soothing them, the sun warm their skin will be a re-birth. There will be celebrations and there will be quiet, private recriminations when those miners whose extra-marital indiscretions were laid bare by the claims and counter-claims made by wives and mistresses face exposure. Lives will be inextricably altered, and there will doubtless be regrets.
Medical personnel will be prepared to give each of the rescued miners their full attention, as a protocol has been established to gradually re-introduce the men back into the realities of everyday normalcy, far from the stifling, mind-deadening, fearsome environment they have been a prisoner of, for far too long. There is the matter too, of the families taking legal action against the mine owners, to be settled in time.
The more immediate concerns, however, lie in the extraction and freedom of the miners, of the need to shield them from the very air and natural light that they have been refused for so long. Their eyesight will need protecting, and their largest bodily organ, their skin. Their mental health will be assessed, and they will be re-introduced to the diet they have latterly been denied, to slim them sufficiently for rescue purposes.
It is instructive to note that such dire straits do not necessarily elevate the mind of man. The miners may be grateful for all the attention that has been given them, with the good wishes for a welcome ending to their miserable travail, for the vast sums of money being expended to ensure that their rescue will be effected in as speedy and safe a manner as possible, that no stones were left unturned to attempt to bring them peace of mind and security.
Their post-rescue exposure to curious and often rapacious news sources have also been considered as they are also being groomed to enable them to speak in public and to the media. Many will doubtless anticipate being well paid for their personal accounts of their dreadful situation of being trapped, and how they managed, singly and collectively, to endure the unendurable.
That they have insisted that the male fitness instructor assigned to assist them in their slimming down process preparatory to rescue through a pod measuring a mere 28 inches in width, be replaced by an attractive female instructor, because they felt the man was "too ugly", speaks unfortunate volumes of human crassness and ingratitude.
Labels: Environment, Security, That's Life
posted by Pieface @ Monday, October 04, 2010
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