Air National Guard evacuates sick baby from Western Alaska village Note that the only medical care available in many Alaska villages is from a Community Health Aid. Great folks, but with only about 16 weeks of training. For anything serious, they need to fly to Anchorage. When the weather is bad (as it frequently is), they can't fly.

Such reckless parenting! They should have known better than to procreate in Alaska, a dangerous frontier loaded with bears, cold weather, and salmon. That baby had a lot of nerve to come down with pneumonia, too.

/<sarcasm>

I actually spent a month out in that area and rode a few of the air ambulance evacs.

Most of those villages are air-only for quick transport. Snow mobiles or quads locally, sometimes a few vehicles. Literally, those community health aides are a cross between paramedic, nurse, and sometimes physician as well. Works out suprisinly well.

As for reckless parenting ...

Well, "oops" happens. And there's a bit of difference in that you can't exactly fall off a village ...
Besides, scrambling a helo is a heck of a lot cheaper than a frigate.

On the other hand you usually don't have bears wandering through your sailboat either. Nor on sailboats do you have 500 people using honey buckets for human waste either (though sometimes that seems to happen on large cruise ships ).

Village life up here seems a tough go. So many modern limitations. How on earth did they ever get by before the white man showed up to take care of them?

Hopefully the little tyke is doing well now. As a parent, I can appreciate the strain.

Of course, I caught yet another stupid cold this week. I am frustrated at how frequently I have been ill so far this year. It's like since I caught Swine flue at Christmas, it's just been one virus getting me after another.

Touche ....
Though the occasional whale may flop onto/capsize your vessel
We could go back and forth all day!

They didn't. They died. Just like everyone else did pre-penecillin.

Mind you, situations like this are great training

Sambacol or Sambucus is great at beefing up one's immune system quickly. It's also a great anti-viral. No affiliation with either. SBRaider (RIP) initially told me of Elderberry Elixir and he was 100% correct.