09-13-2018, 11:58 AM
(09-13-2018, 11:32 AM)Benton Wrote: This is one of those where the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
Did a higher number of people die than normal? Yes. Was that directly related to the country's shift in response (from handing out water and food and repairing infrastructure to tossing paper towels into a crowd)? Maybe.
It would take looking into each one of the deaths during the immediate period after, which I don't think was done. It sounds like they just said 'well, there was a higher mortality rate.'
A reasoned and rational response that will be completely ignored by some. Let's say every death attributed to the hurricane was caused directly by it. How many of those deaths was caused by an inadequate US response? How many of those were caused by an inadequate response from the local governments? How many were reasonably unavoidable? Without that kind of data the casualty numbers tell us absolutely nothing about how adequate the Trump administrations response was or were blame for avoidable deaths lies.
