This looks like boilerplate policy required by their insurance company. Smurf is a neutral word and anyone hearing it not privy to its meaning would have no idea what it meant. That would minimize people coming over to gawk. I don't see any smoking gun here and bet you can find identical docs for every large event.
This is likely the case. The radios they use are usually open-frequency radios that anyone can listen in on, and everyone, especially media outlets, know that. They'll listen in, but the vast majority of people trained to handle these situations will not openly discuss sensitive information that might get leaked to the media, such as the number of deaths. That sort of information is tightly controlled so that nobody hears about their loved one dying on the news or hears early, unverified numbers about casualties before they are confirmed.
Hence, why police use police codes, which tend to be different from the codes other precincts. You don't want to make it easy for any rando listening on a radio to tell that you're dealing with a rape victim.
Absolutely. I worked in a hospital a long time ago. There was an elderly/infirm floor and Code Meadow meant a patient had crapped the bed or in the hallway and housekeeping would rush up to deal with it.
I also worked at a hospital - in college days around '94-'95 as a housekeeper... the dread I would feel when hearing "housekeeping to <some hall, room, etc.>, there is a BM" was real. The "BM" which everyone knows is "bowel movement" wasn't code at all and people would chuckle at me as I would wheel the special cart with the bio cleanup purposed little green clean machine on it to do the dirty work. aaaah... memories
Smurfs are also people who buy precursor drugs for meth production or keep financial transactions below the fed reporting limit. Do you suppose they are all interrelated?
This looks like boilerplate policy required by their insurance company. Smurf is a neutral word and anyone hearing it not privy to its meaning would have no idea what it meant. That would minimize people coming over to gawk. I don't see any smoking gun here and bet you can find identical docs for every large event.
This is likely the case. The radios they use are usually open-frequency radios that anyone can listen in on, and everyone, especially media outlets, know that. They'll listen in, but the vast majority of people trained to handle these situations will not openly discuss sensitive information that might get leaked to the media, such as the number of deaths. That sort of information is tightly controlled so that nobody hears about their loved one dying on the news or hears early, unverified numbers about casualties before they are confirmed.
Hence, why police use police codes, which tend to be different from the codes other precincts. You don't want to make it easy for any rando listening on a radio to tell that you're dealing with a rape victim.
Absolutely. I worked in a hospital a long time ago. There was an elderly/infirm floor and Code Meadow meant a patient had crapped the bed or in the hallway and housekeeping would rush up to deal with it.
Hospitals now call that a Code Biden (when a patient craps themselves).
If you hear a page for Doctor Strong they need muscle help somewhere
"Paging Mr Greenthumb" was our code that a bomb threat had been called in at the arena I used to work at. Never got to hear them say it.
I also worked at a hospital - in college days around '94-'95 as a housekeeper... the dread I would feel when hearing "housekeeping to <some hall, room, etc.>, there is a BM" was real. The "BM" which everyone knows is "bowel movement" wasn't code at all and people would chuckle at me as I would wheel the special cart with the bio cleanup purposed little green clean machine on it to do the dirty work. aaaah... memories
Exactly. When's the last time Daytona remained unscathed during Spring Break?
Yes they also don’t want to cause panic either. Yelling “hey we got some dead ones on met here!” Would not be good in a crowd situation.
Smurfs are also people who buy precursor drugs for meth production or keep financial transactions below the fed reporting limit. Do you suppose they are all interrelated?
/don't answer, i'm sure you do...
Exactly. Panic results in more death, such as people running and trampling.
Think logically, quit looking for something that is there.