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And by the way, don't let the leftists get away with the fraudulent fiction that 3,000 people died in Puerto Rico from a hurricane. The actual number was something like 12, counting the way such numbers have been counted since time immemorial. The left lies about everything.
The 3,000 number comes from a newly minted academic "model" that attributes all kinds of subsequent statistical deaths over a long time period to the hurricane. By that methodology, death toll from 9/11 could run into hundreds of thousands. This is vicious political trickery.
Where are the names of the 3,000 people who died from Mara in Puerto Rico? They don't exist because it's a statistical calculation based on something called "excess mortality rate." That's not how death toll from any other disaster, natural or man made, has ever been reported.
Tweak the "model parameters" and you can make the death toll from Maria come out to be any number that satisfies a political need. And they actually did. One model says 3,000. Another one says 1,400. It's not hard to tweak the model parameters to make the number 100 or 10,000.
In their zeal to exact political mileage out of everything, the left has actually desecrated the memory of those who lost their lives to the tragedy of Maria. The left has turned real deaths and real suffering into an arbitrary, statistical and politicized abstraction.
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The 10, 12, or 64 deaths that were originally reported were the deaths of people with real names. It's a tragedy of enormous proportions. We need to deal with the real loss of life and the real suffering. We don't need artificial statistical exaggerations to exploit tragedy.
Even to this day, and even with this newfangled statistical arbitrage, the official death toll as per the government of Puerto Rico is 1,400. The only reason @AOC homed in on the deceitful 3,000 number was to draw an unhinged and diabolical parallel to 9/11. That is shameful! End
BTW, if you think use of a "statistical model" to count deaths was only a Puerto Rico special, you would be wrong. Now that Democrats have 'tasted blood,' so to speak, they want to use it again and again. Senator Kamala Harris put forward national legislation to do just that.
"Procedures for counting fatalities" are nothing but the statistical models I wrote about above. This is how the left dresses up their chicanery in pretty garb while preying upon every tragedy to further their own political agenda.
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Don't believe the Democratic rhetoric on how Puerto Rico hasn't been helped adequately by the Trump administration. While reading these 5 tweets from President Trump, keep in mind also that Puerto Ricans pay no federal taxes.
Don't believe the Democratic rhetoric on how Puerto Rico hasn't been helped adequately by the Trump administration. While reading these 5 tweets from President Trump, keep in mind also that Puerto Ricans pay no federal taxes.
