Posted on 09/14/2018 11:33:22 AM PDT by SJackson
He’s just another victim in one of the gulags of Socialism.
IN september, after the storm, she said her grandfather was in a nursing home. So not during the storm.
It is possible he died in a nursing home that did not have power and did not take care of him.
But if that is the case, I still don’t understand why, given that she has considerable political clout, and apparently a good supply of money, she didn’t pull her grandfather out of a nursing home that was killing him, and bring him to the United states, where he could have lived FOR FREE for a full year (we gave all refugees from PR 1 year of free housing and meal allowances, apparently).
My guess is he was dying in the nursing home, and he died in the nursing home, and he probably would have anyway — although nobody should doubt that the aftermath of hte storm, with power outages, lack of sewage treatment, and the medical services being decimated by people who left, DID cause the deaths of hundreds, if not thousands, of people in that country.
She’s certifiable
And The Gift to political us
Keep it up, Dumb***
Aside from CNN, who lies wholesale, I’m not sure the rest of the jackals will run with this.
But that is a major caveat to attribution to death by hurricane. Much could have been prevented by better infrastructure in the first place.
Actually, that is one of the big plans, I think Musk was pushing it, and some other tech billionares. Build small residential-sized solar facilities to hook into the grid and provide local pwwer.
The problem is, the PR power is a publicly owned utility, and it is broke, but if you build anything, it is hard to figure out how you would keep it for your own, or how you would count on a grid run by a bankrupt corrupt public entity.
He raised billions in private donations. Then the house voted a $37 billion dollar aid package.
“Translation: He died sometime AFTER the storm. Could have been hit by a Good Humor truck for all we know.”
Or old age.
That $37 billion was in November, and we voted another 16 billion in February.
The problem is, the territory was broke when this started, they are more broke now, and we are giving them money for Medicaid, for general government operations, for everything.
They are like a 3rd world country. Personally, I’d like to see us grant them independence. We should never have been in the colonization business, it just causes trouble, no sane country would accept Puerto Rico as a state.
Yep, we have enough welfare recipients in our country.
Died from what?
Maybe he was uncounted because he died from nothing storm related.
And I believe Trump. He has access to intel she does not.
That’s the problem. the CDC has a methodology to track disaster-related deaths. THe claim is that the medical profession in PR is poorly trained, and has NOT been filling out death certificates properly, so they don’t trust the numbers.
That’s why the PR government commisioned the study, to see if there was another way to guess how many of those deaths were related to the hurricane.
The problem is, some uptick in deaths do not fit the definition the CDC has, so while you could say the CDC undercounts, or say the study overcounts, the real problem is you can’t compare them.
So we ahve this bizarre situation where, under current proclamation, the PR hurricane is now the 3rd most devastating one in history, even though most people think that, using the criteria of this study, Katrina would easily double it. Although I can’t find that quote now, so maybe I imagined it.
Our cleaning lady’s uncle’s neighbor died last week in PR.
Blame has to be placed on the President.
We had four hurricanes in the 2004 season here in Florida,
Charlie, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne.
In the year 2005 170,300 people died. Using the GWU “model,”
almost all could be as a result of the hurricanes. Three out of 10 died of heart problems and one of four died from cancer but a large portion of those heart and cancer victims were hurricane victims too!
John McCain is dead, for sure.
Most death totals for earlier storms only included direct deaths.
Probably with so many people on meds or in hospitals and nursing homes nowadays the potential for indirect deaths is greater - especially in a place where infrastructure isn't great to begin with - but direct comparisons of death totals between this storm and earlier ones can be deceptive.
LOL!
My parents died in the aftermath of the San Francisco Quake, which occurred iin the early 20th century, I believe.
Neither had been born yet, and both were born in Chicago, but I have no doubt that the San Andreas fault line played a significant role in their passing. /s
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You’ve cracked their code!
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CNN—”false claim” by the president. Now that’s Objective reporting! /s
There were many births that happened 9 months after the blackout. What else can you do in the dark??
LOL! Thanks! ;)
Have a great weekend, FRiend!
Julie
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