Dunk on me all you want to, but just here to ask, what could be done better? As far as I know this was a natural disaster (probably worsened by climate change). I’m sure there are for profit groups that are helping Hawaii just out of monetary gains, but aren’t government emergency services on the island helping?

I hope this doesn’t come across as me defending capitalism, but is the argument here that it would better if Hawaii was independent of the US? And would that actually help their ability to respond to a disaster such as this?