Turnip already undercounting deaths from Florence

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News reports vary in how many people have died as a result of Hurricane Florence. Fox News currently lists the death toll at 11, while CBS says it’s 12.

One number major news organizations have not given is five.

But in an echo of his handling of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, President Donald Trump tweeted Saturday to underestimate the ongoing storm’s death toll.

“Five deaths have been recorded thus far with regard to hurricane Florence!” the president said.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/trump- ... -florence/

What can we say when he can’t count above five using his itty bitty fingers.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.-Huxley
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis Brandeis,

Re: Turnip already undercounting deaths from Florence

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The George Washington University study on Hurricane Maria deaths is very detailed, their estimate is 2,975 deaths were caused by the hurricane.An earlier Harvard University study estimated the death toll at between 793 and 8,498 deaths.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-45521414

I don't expect reliable mortality numbers until GWU or another university steps in an does an analysis.
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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AndyH wrote: Sun Sep 16, 2018 2:00 pm 2975 deaths is a 9/11 scale disaster.
Not in the shit stain's mind.
They are Brown.
They speak Spanish.
They are on an island (not Manhattan or Long Island).
They don't vote.

To him, they are not American, not even human and don't matter.

Living human cesspool. And is President.
"Even if the bee could explain to the fly why pollen is better than shit, the fly could never understand."

Re: Turnip already undercounting deaths from Florence

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Now we have Turnip's FEMA director blaming the deaths on everything, including Spousal Abuse, except the Hurricane.
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Director Brock Long suggested on Sunday that President Donald Trump was right to doubt the hurricane death toll in Puerto Rico because some of the people could have died as a result of “spousal abuse.”

During an interview on Meet the Press, Long was asked about Trump’s claim that a study which found 2,975 deaths in Puerto Rico as a result of Hurricane Maria was a plot by Democrats.

“It’s frustrating, those studies,” Long told NBC host Chuck Todd. “The Harvard study was done differently than the George Washington study, this study or that study and the numbers are over the place.”

The NBC host interrupted: “He said Democrats did it to make him look bad. Do you believe any of these studies were done to make the president look bad?”

“I don’t know why the studies were done,” the FEMA director shrugged. “In my opinion, what we’ve got to do is figure out why people die from direct deaths, which is the wind, the water and the waves — you know, building collapsing, which is probably where the 65 number came from.”

“And then there’s indirect deaths,” he continued. “So, George Washington study looked at what happened six months after fact. And what happened is — and even in [Hurricane Florence] — you might see more deaths indirectly occur as time goes on because people have heart attacks due to stress, the fall off their house trying to fix their roof. They die in care crashes because they went through an intersection where the stop lights weren’t working.”

“You know, the other thing that goes on,” Long added. “Spousal abuse goes through the roof. You can’t blame spousal abuse after a disaster on anybody.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/fema-d ... hurricane/
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