09-13-2018, 01:38 PM
(09-13-2018, 12:28 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: You can't say this 25 minutes later as if he is being ignored.
There's a difference between saying "3000 deaths occurred as a result of the hurricanes" and "3000 deaths occurred as a result of the federal response to the hurricanes". In this situation, Trump is explicitly denying the 3000 figure in general and pushing 6-18 with some wiggle room for a few more. I'm not going to blame him and I didn't (and I know I'm not necessarily the subject of your response), I just noted the denial of the deaths. This shouldn't be an issue of "I have to deny this independent figure because I think it makes me look bad".
But we can't get into the breakdown of what caused each death if we are arguing over how many there even were because we're afraid of how bad that'll make us look.
I also want to tack onto this that we need to understand that the 3000 figure is not even saying directly (from my understanding, someone correct me if I am wrong). If I diabetic dies because they are unable to access insulin because of supply issues due to the hurricane, that person died from complications of diabetes, but it is indirectly the result of the hurricanes.
These numbers are hard to come up with for a number of reasons, which is why there are different reports. The 3000 count is likely a pretty fair representation of deaths resulting from hurricanes based on what we know.
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