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Crisis in Puerto Rico

The GOP can use PR as a red-headed stepchild because they don’t have full voting rights. It allows them to get walked all over and their reps are a lot of the time dirty.
 
Even if Trump and his base of idiots and starfuckers don't care about PR because of their brown-ness, shouldn't they care about it from a national security standpoint?

Over 75 percent of the people from Puerto Rico identify themselves as white. That number is way down from recent years. It is a shithole territory. If you want to help them then relocate them to the US. I am all for that rather than throwing good money after bad money. Hell, make it a huge military base. If they really want to live in a hell hole they can go to Mississippi.
 
I would never wish anyone to go to Mississippi or Alabama...just rude!
 
Over 75 percent of the people from Puerto Rico identify themselves as white. That number is way down from recent years. It is a shithole territory. If you want to help them then relocate them to the US. I am all for that rather than throwing good money after bad money. Hell, make it a huge military base. If they really want to live in a hell hole they can go to Mississippi.

Cool post
 
They didn't vote for Trump. They speak Spanish and most aren't white. What do they expect?

After all, there are many fine white supremacists who must get served first.
 

Of course the official number was way off, but this is really sad. And if so many died due to interrupted treatment, I can only imagine how many are now in situations where their health is worse because of the same.

Puerto Rico governor welcomes "real number" of Hurricane Maria deaths after shocking report

The Harvard study surveyed more than 3,000 homes across the island and found the mortality rate rose 62 percent in the three months after Hurricane Maria compared to that period the year before. Researchers concluded the final death count could be as high as 8,500.

"One third of our deaths were reported because lack of medical treatment," said Domingo Marques, who was a lead author of the study.
 
 
The True Scope of the Disaster in Puerto Rico

Hurricane Maria looks increasingly like Katrina in terms of its effects. At the lower end of the Harvard researchers’ death range, it could match Katrina’s toll, and on the higher end, it could eclipse it. If the true death count is closer to 8,000, the September storm would be the single most devastating natural disaster to hit the United States since the Galveston Hurricane in 1900.

Beyond raw death counts, the woes inflicted—and uncovered—by Maria are comparable to those revealed after Katrina. As I reported in October, many of the lasting effects of flooding, contamination, and ill health in Puerto Rico compounded along lines of race and class, just as they did after Katrina hit New Orleans. Maria has also shined a spotlight on the federal government’s relationship with its largest territory, further exacerbating one of the most consequential domestic migrations since the Dust Bowl and exposing the future difficulties of austerity on a debt-riddled island.
 
Media outlets suck at reporting on academic research.
 
 
Hurricane Maria caused an estimated 2,975 deaths in Puerto Rico, new study finds

In May, a Harvard University study said Maria was likely responsible for more than 4,600 deaths from the day of the storm, September 20, until December 31, 2017 — a figure that was based on results of a door-to-door survey of 3,299 randomly selected homes across the island. Earlier this month, Puerto Rico said in a report to Congress there were 1,427 more deaths "than normal" in the four months after Hurricane Maria and Hurricane Irma, which churned on a path just north of the island two weeks before Maria hit. That report said, however, those 1,427 deaths "may or may not be attributable to the hurricanes."

The latest study says that from the period ranging from September to December 2017 alone, there were an excess of 2,098 deaths, and 2,975 from September 2017 through February 2018.
 
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