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Message: [QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 4513503, member: 173"] [SIZE=13px][/SIZE] I cannot possibly disagree more that “it was wrong, obviously”. One of the roles I’ve had in my career was the leader of the first responder team at a manufacturing site in the middle of nowhere. We were going to be the medical staff for at least thirty minutes until an ambulance arrived. One of the most important rules we had was if there’s a procedure to follow - follow it. Didn’t matter how stupid it seemed, the absolutely WORST thing that can happen is people starting to do what they think is right but that violates procedure, because then it turns into chaos and makes the situation worse. As an example, people are upset the NFL didn’t just immediately cancel the game. Let’s say they did - now you’d have thousands of people leaving the stadium and clogging up the roads - making it harder for the ambulance to get to the hospital. If someone at the stadium had decided to “do the right thing” and immediate announce the game was cancelled, he/she could have inadvertently negatively impacted survival odds. I’m almost certain the NFL had “cancelled” the game well before it was announced, in order to make sure the ambulance made it to the hospital ASAP. They possibly stuck to telling players 5 minutes to warm up just to give the medical personnel space. One of the biggest challenges in a medical emergency is people with heightened emotions often want to help but do crazy stuff that is the complete opposite of help. I’d rather have Joe Burrow and Josh Allen pointlessly throwing a football than trying to help me. And I’ve been in that situation mandating procedure be followed to the “T”, and having people think I was an inconsiderate, uncompassionate a**h***. Totally get that’s how many people feel about NFL officials right now - I can assure you that the ones in charge of crisis management at the NFL don’t care because they know they did the right things to maximize survival odds. [/QUOTE]

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