I think television movies love of "badge respects badge" goes out the window here. *shaking my head* You'd think anybody with half a brain would rejoice to see a paramdedic coming.
I remember decades past where the people that lived in walled compounds with stockpiles of food, water, weapons, generators, etc., saying "you can't trust the government to help you - you have to help yourselves" were considered crazy paranoics. Now they get one big "I told ya so!"