(06-15-2017, 12:06 AM)OmegaLogos Wrote: Explanation: This was a fire waiting to happen!A cheap and easy way to rack-and-stack the poor, the urban working-class and immigrants of the 1970s.
Primarily I blame the architect who originally designed the building without any sprinkler system
installed and I also blame the architect who signed off on the flammable exterior cladding!
As the years went by and the Common Market became the European Union, the working-class became
the economic migrants and low-paid immigrants in London (and probably in other cities) from the poorer
areas of Europe and the once-working-class became lower-middle or middle-class.
Well, you've gotta put them somewhere... so the wheel turns.
But the media won't talk about that.
Though many buildings like this were seen as okay not to have a sprinkler system installed
during construction, I would wager that the later-cost of one would far outweigh the concerns
for safety, simply because the architect and the 'working-class-now-middle-class' didn't have
to live there.
The standard credo from those officially involved is 'lessons will be learned', but in all honesty,
that particular lesson has been learnt many times before this tragedy.
It's all about money and class.
Without sounding callous, if this awful incident had happened in November, the continuing coverage
would have died-down in a couple of days. It's just that it's local for Journalists, Summer holidays will
effect staffing-levels in the media companies and in a period of racially-connected religion problems in
many UK cities, it's a vehicle to show diversity and compassion from the wealthier people who don't live
in such fire-traps.
If you check the initial television reporting, you'll see most of the witnesses were brown or black and the
Journalists in the streets were white until the poor optics were seen to be obvious. Then Journalists of other
races were brought in to show the viewers that this story is about a fire and not about who was racked-and
-stacked in that outdated building.
Prayers, candles, solemn-looking young people, rainbow-coloured windmills and platitudes will be the focus
now until something else grabs the media's attention.
The cladding company...
'Rydon, which completed the renovations, said the work met all fire regulations...'
'...Newsnight policy editor Chris Cook said the cladding used on Grenfell Tower was sold
under the brand Reynobond.
He said manufacturers offer two different versions of the cladding - one with a plastic core
and one with a mineral core.
He said he understood cladding with a plastic core was used in the west London tower...'
SOURCE:
Cost and the value of those it was used for.
Thursday -17 dead now.
Edith Head Gives Good Wardrobe.