Het
is werkelijk beestachtig misdadig zoals de meer dan corrupte Trump
administratie omging en omgaat met de bevolking van Puerto Rico nadat orkaan Maria heeft huisgehouden in deze VS staat..... Trump wees een opdracht voor herstel van het elektriciteitsnetwerk toe aan een klein bevriend bedrijf, dit heeft er toe geleid dat de
stroomvoorziening op het eiland nog steeds niet optimaal werkt, let
wel dat is voor velen een eufemisme, daar ze alleen stroom hebben als
ze die zelf produceren met een generator........ Sterker nog: veel Puerto Ricanen hebben na zoveel tijd niet eens de beschikking over stromend water......
Met
de wederopbouw gaat het al net zo, één grote ellende.....*
Moet
je nagaan en dezelfde VS heeft zo'n grote bek over landen waar
corruptie de gewone bevolking benadeelt, terwijl de VS het lichtend
voorbeeld van totale corruptie is, neem de familie van Trump die dikke
baantjes werden toegewezen in de Trump administratie, of het hiervoor genoemde voorbeeld........
Nearly 6,000 Died in Puerto Rico From Hurricane Maria — 70 Times Official Count
May
30, 2018 at 7:23 am
Written
by Jessica
Corbett
(CD) — A study published
Tuesday in The
New England Journal of Medicine estimates
that nearly 6,000 people died in Puerto Rico after Hurricane
Maria,
with a survey indicating the mortality rate is likely more than 70
times the highly contested official
death toll of 64.
Researchers
with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center surveyed thousands of survivors and
initially estimated that at least 4,645 people died between when the
storm struck the U.S. territory on September 20, 2017 and the end of
the year.
A key line from that Puerto Rico study: Their estimate of 4,645 dead after Hurricane Maria “is likely to be conservative.” In terms of loss of human life, that’s a tragedy deadlier than 9/11, and it happened right under our noses. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
However,
considering that they could not survey people who lived alone and
died due to the hurricane, researchers adjusted the estimate to
5,740. Citing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
the study says deaths can be attributed to the storm “if they are
caused by forces related to the event, such as flying debris, or if
they are caused by unsafe or unhealthy conditions resulting in
injury, illness, or loss of necessary medical services.”
The
findings bolster a series of damning independent reports that
have disputed the official death toll. Pressure from those reports
pushed Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló to recruit researchers
from George Washington University to review the government’s
process of accessing deaths tied to the hurricane and produce an
analysis that is
expected to
be released in the coming weeks.
Pointing
to that government-funded analysis, the Harvard study notes that its
findings “will serve as an important independent comparison to
official statistics from death-registry data, which are currently
being reevaluated, and underscore the inattention of the U.S.
government to the frail infrastructure of Puerto Rico.”
The
hurricane decimated the island’s infrastructure, particularly
its debt-riddenelectrical
system. According to the National
Hurricane Center (pdf),
Maria caused an estimated $90 billion in damage, making it the
third-costliest tropical storm since 1900, behind Katrina in 2005 and
Harvey, which struck the Southern United States last year.
At least 4,645 people died in Puerto Rico as a result of Hurricane Maria and its aftermath, per a new @Harvard study. That's more than twice the Katrina death toll. Yet the official government count still stands at 64. It's as if those folks never existed. wapo.st/2slnkwk
Despite
the widespread devastation and the humanitarian
crisis that
followed, accounts from journalists and locals have
shown that
the response by the Trump administration and Republican-controlled
Congress has been largely inadequate. The Harvard researchers found
that “delayed or prevented access to medical care” was the
“primary cause” of post-Maria deaths, accounting for about a
third of all deaths reported by surviviors.
As
San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, a fierce critic of
the federal relief efforts, declared six months after the storm,
“things are not what they should be…due to neglect and
bureaucracy.”
Rep.
Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.)—who has also sharply
criticized the
administration’s response and spent months advocating
for greater government investment in recovery efforts—said the
Harvard study “confirms my worst nightmares,” calling it
“confirmation of an American tragedy.”
While
Puerto Ricans and sympathetic politicians fight for the funds to
rebuild the island, the region is bracing for this year’s hurricane
season amid warnings that territory is not prepared for another
intense tropical storm.
Puerto Rico, Day 251:
—Tens of thousands of people are still w/o power
—Tens of thousands of people are still w/o clean water
—At least 4,645 people are dead
—For these people and their families, Hurricane Maria is still a humanitarian emergency
Hurricane season starts in 3 days twitter.com/washingtonpost…
—Tens of thousands of people are still w/o power
—Tens of thousands of people are still w/o clean water
—At least 4,645 people are dead
—For these people and their families, Hurricane Maria is still a humanitarian emergency
Hurricane season starts in 3 days twitter.com/washingtonpost…
“This
isn’t over,” tweeted novelist
Laila Lalami in response to the study. “Puerto Rico is still
struggling with services.”
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Als
in het 'Nederlandse' Sint Maarten, waar de schoftenregeringen Rutte 2
en Rutte 3 de bewoners in feite chanteerden met belachelijke
voorwaarden, 'voordat er hulp kon worden geboden....' Het is nu zelfs
zo zot dat Rutte NB het gore lef had te zeggen dat de bewoners nog
lang niet klaar zijn voor het nieuwe orkaanseizoen, terwijl dat één
op één de schuld is van de totaal disfunctionerende regering
Rutte....... Ofwel Rutte is daar zelf schuldig aan, zie: 'Rutte durft na Nederlandse chantage te zeggen dat Sint Maarten niet is voorbereid op nieuw orkaanseizoen....... 8 maanden na orkaan Irma!' en zie wat Sint Maarten betreft ook: 'Plasterk, zijn laatste (mis-) daad: Sint Maarten chanteren...... Zoals Dickinson (Tex) dit doet met op Israël kritische inwoners.....' (waar PvdA plork Plasterk vooral de arme bevolking van Sint Maarten chanteerde en zwaar tekort heeft gedaan.....)Zie ook:
'Puerto Rico ('VS') wordt nog steeds slecht of niet geholpen voor gevolgen orkaan Maria >> Trump: 'eiland krijgt teveel hulp'' (zie ook de andere links in dat bericht)
'Trump: VS heeft een geweldige prestatie geleverd met de hulp aan Puerto Rico na orkaan Maria.......... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!'
'Puerto Rico, na de orkanen Irma en Maria in de steek gelaten door de VS, gaat energievoorziening verduurzamen'
