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Posted on 9/12/2005, 12:50:12 AM by fso301
See link for pdf file containing mortality rates for Louisiana on a Parish by Parish basis. Use this to compare Katrina related death count versus normal.
The referenced pdf was created in 2004 but uses 2002 mortality figures. There were 10,084 deaths of all kinds in Orleans Parish. That's 27.63 residents of Orleans Parish dying each day.
Additional Louisiana Vital Statistics (including detailed abortion statistics) here.
Very interesting. I had been wondering about this. Thanks for the post.
My off-the-top-of-the-head estimate had been 15/day as "nornmal" for NO. 10x for 5 days would lead to an estimate of 750.
Bump. Thank you for this interesting analysis. I think the MSM will be deeply saddened if there aren't 1000s of deaths to try and pin on Bush and the Republicans.
Good post, I was wondering about this the other day.
Ultimately, an accounting will have to be given as to why the politicians personally insured that on election days, the buses ran continuously through the poor areas, the housing projects, the senior centers and the homeless shelters. On top of insuring that the buses ran, they made sure that the police were present to insure rider safety and the politicians insured that the media was present to film and print what the politicians were doing for the less fortunate and less able members of society.
After the elections were over and the same peoples lives were collectively in jeopardy, the same politicians told them "You're on your own".
If FEMA keeps getting the blame for the hurricane response, Blanco will try to insure that any death for any reason in any affected Parish is attributed to Karina.
Since President Bush, Michael Brown, and FEMA were responsible for the well-being of people for the past 10 days, does this mean they actually saved lives?
Some might even have died of drug related withdrawal conditions. If they couldn't get a fix......
The media is able to bash FEMA due to a public misperception about the size and role of the agency. FEMA only employees 2500 full-time staff and is not a first response agency.
From FEMA website: See second paragraph from bottom.
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The only possibility would be abandoned nursing home patients. Once teh looted grocery and liquor store contents were consumed, people could have broken into evacuated houses where some quantity of food and liquid would have been left behind. Once those supplies ran out, the streets were full of water. All a person had to do was strain it through a shirt and boil it for ten minutes to render it potable.
I might be wrong, but when I think of people starving I have mental images of bloated bellies, sunken faces, in short images such as you see in third world countries, and I haven't seen those images on any network or on even the most left wing blogs.
Nor will you see any such images. Even in the Superdome, MRE's were distrubuted to the people daily. The main problems were lack of power, lack of sanitation and lack of security... all the responsibility of criminally negligent local authorities.
Great link -- thanks.
I've saaid this about a week ago. Death totals figures were Awwaaaay out of line with what we were seeing.
Good to see others were thinking , too
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