i'm sorry, but i will say it again- we should be evacuating as many people

[Lee-Lee]

48. I've actually done military logistics

Is not as easy as "get them out".

First, you need a defined destination. "Out" isn't a defined destination. If you take a plane load of sick people with medical needs out and have no clue where they are headed now they are dropped off at a flight line somewhere with nobody to care for them or anywhere to go. You haven't fixed a problem, just created new ones.

Second, you can't do "supplies in people out" fast on planes like C-17's. The C-17 configured for passengers can carry a lot of people very uncomfortably- imagine the worst airline seat ever set up so you have way less legroom than the worst civilian airline. But you have to understand that when cargo comes in a C-130 or C-17 it's all loaded on special aluminum pallets- A 463L pallet if you want to Google and see one- that lock into the floor and get rolled out. Your problem is that your seats for carrying passengers are aso set up on these same type pallets so they can set them up for passengers by just locking the seats into the floor. So if you are carrying cargo you don't have the passenger seat pallets. The same goes for configured to medical flights, it is all on pallets.

So if a flight is to carry people off it has to arrive configured for passengers, because there is not a huge stock of extra seat pallets there.

So every flight in to move people can't move in supplies. You can't do supplies in-people out. It's either cargo in, empty back (maybe a few people) or empty seats over and people back.

More people are helped by a flight full of cargo on than are helped by a flight of people out.

Same goes for ships hauling people- we don't have "troop transports" for moving bulk people, and the ships there do far more good moving people and goods ashore than trying to get people off the island- and once again, where do they go if you do? Drop them off at the beach in Florida and wave goodbye?