The Baltimore bridge collapse reveals who is most vulnerable

[@debisettles4745]

Please can we mourn the loss of the workers without making it into a political platform? Many times I see migrant workers-they are the hardest workers!! Good workers! Please tho can you refrain from the insinuation that Americans won’t do certain jobs? I’m an American, female, recently retired from a 30 year career in the nuclear/construction industry. May times I have worked suspended from a crane in a man basket in highly contaminated area, as well as working in the middle of the night, in 25° weather, from a jlg lift, thirty feet in the air, wind off the river, for hours at a time!! Please, my heart hurts for those who lost their lives. For their families. But many women and men who were BORN HERE also do dangerous work, so please don’t politicize their deaths, and discount Americans at the same time. It can be just about what happened and that’s enough. That’s ok.

[@toriAllisonP]

LAW 👏🏼SUIT! 👏🏼👏🏼 How were they able to communicate to stop the traffic but not communicate to get the workers off? Something is missing.

[@Thisandthat8908]

lol yeah. possibly because there was construction on the bridge, so police was already at the access points for traffic control. MAYBE the traffic comes from the ends of the bridge, which you can get to faster than the middle of it. Because of ... spacetime i guess. Which is also the reason why hindsight smartarsing is SO much easier. And maybe, just maybe, because this happened in the middle of the night within MINUTES. And is something you would not REALLY believe could actually happen. Without the construction work and police nearby, i doubt anyone would have stopped traffic in time. But it also happened in the US so there is bound to be some Law Suits anyway.

[@Thisandthat8908]

nothing against the consideration of (immigrant) workers having hard jobs. It feels a bit crowbared in on this topic. This was a freak accident on a bridge that stood there for 50 years. The chances for this to happen must be ludicrously tiny. The workers have hopefully the safety gear you expect for such a job. It's hardly a building a sklyscraper in the 30's level of high risk job. Which apparently involved a lot of native americans who are treated like crap to this day by the US.

[@nathaliedaniela3187]

Well, first time I listener of the POST Report! Good for people who have been out of touch with news. I stopped counting „I think..!“ from Reporters/ correspondents for me. Not for me, Not for everybody

[@jimmiller1686]

immigrants have always had the tough jobs. who do you think dug all the water tunnels for NYC? who built the transcontinental railroad? unskilled people have to do unskilled work to survive. it's always been that way, always will be.

[@debrajohnson8030]

Well instead of shutting deliveries down I would clean the steel out of the water and continue making the DELIVERIES. there's no sense in shutting these down when the people there need them and knocking people out of work .

[@Thisandthat8908]

i think cleaning it out and making the bottom flat again is going to take while. Apparrently a loaded ship like this has a tiny amount of clearance to it.

[@jackever]

Is there a special training to have the same inflection, tone and other voice characteristics for a near monotone delivery… sounds like PBS reporters.. you do have the advantage of being understandable , but the monotone style is distracting to me. Perhaps I could read a transcript.

[@debrajohnson8030]

Those poor immigrant workers just doing there job it's so sad !

[@debrajohnson8030]

How can a crew be on a Bridge working without walkie talkies or some kind of communication? This doesn't seem right alot of these immigrants cannot speak English there has to be an interpreter there , this doesn't seem right !

[@Dedette1966]

All USA resident workers, whether recent migrants or First Nations and across all races and genders, are vulnerable to the USA’s particularly predatory capitalism and bought politicians. USA workers and families should never think that their education, perceived social status or race will shield them from the deadly dangers of unregulated capitalism. It’s why we should care how marginalized people in the USA and around the world are treated by powerful interests and people. Powerful people test out violent theft of labor and resources first on the weakest people and if they face no consequences, the powerful expand the number of targets until the harm is universal. That harm in the USA can happen on a poorly built bridge, in an Amazon factory that illegally prevents trade unions, in East Palestine, OH where the air is poisonous, in Flint, Michigan where the water is poisonous, at a mass shooting, on a Boeing airplane, in a Tesla or at home because you can’t afford to get medical treatment in the USA’s for-profit medical industry. May God bless us all. May all the people directly impacted by the horrific collapse of the Key Bridge, which was hit by a shipping vessel, be fully compensated. May those who lost their lives rest in eternal peace. My deepest condolences to their families and friends.

[@Donald_Turnip]

The fact is that no matter what you guys are saying, almost TWO MILES of bridge fell down from a single strike. I care what anybody says, THAT is a defective bridge design. One strike should not knock an entire bridge down unless it's literally a meteor strike. It needs to be understood that the bridge was a death trap. Anyone who actually watches the video sees that it doesn't just drop. No, the bridge is SERIOUSLY top-heavy, with whatever number of layers of concrete/asphalt is too much for a shoddy bridge to handle. Watch the video. You can see the top is destabilized in one area and then proceeds to drop like Thor's hammer hit the top. This could have been preventable if the bridge had been made with a proper design by someone other than the cheapest bidder. I looked at the entire thing twisting to the river, and I saw a bridge that was HORRIBLY weak. Part of the Crimean Bridge gets exploded by the Ukrainians every couple of weeks, and one segment drops. Obviously, this is a much older bridge, but when I look at the bridge before the collapse, my mind says "weak."

[@pinga858]

Different kind of bridge completely. You need to educate yourself about how bridges are made. Most do not have dolphins like you see on some large bridges.

[@Donald_Turnip]

Sorry but the bridge was put up in modules. You can see by how they fall that those modules are too seriously connected. I am not an architect, but it doesn't take one to look at that span, realize that a million boats are going to go under it, look and see a bigass cargo dock that will have big ships, and eventually address the fact of what happens if the bridge fails. That bridge was a house of cards. It looks like a ground-based bridge would fail, not one over water that has no control over the ships going under it. It was not built to handle an accident because all things considered, about 50 pounds of high explosive in the middle would have dropped that whole thing, too. That's NOT strong enough for such a place.@@pinga858

[@danielluera3583]

What is the black swan? Is that some type of satellite that can disrupt communication or affect the controls of any computerized system?

[@abrahamphilip6439]

The Key lies in what made the ship to veer to the right, towards the bridge post The question is was it time to rebuild the Bridge ? And that would be another story alltogather, at anothers cost, considering America & its ways, & its findings never to be know other than medias speculations that they are apt at ,

[@danielluera3583]

I still think this was planned 🤔🤔🤔