Puerto Rico: "There's a medical center down here & everyone that was in the ICU, died. Everyone"

[kpete]

NelsonMRosario

My dad lives on the island. I shared the President's response with him this morning. He wanted me to share one anecdote in response. 1/

For context, my dad is helping with rebuilding right now, and has friends in the govt, elected and appointed, on the island. 2/


After I told him what the President said he went quiet and said "Wow." A second later he says "I'm gonna share one detail with you. One." 3/

"There's a medical center down here, and everyone that was in the Intensive Care Unit, died. Everyone. That's just one detail." 4/

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[Not Ruth]

1. OMG, that is awful

Where was the ICU? How many died?

[PJMcK]

2. This is Trump's Katrina (n/t)

[George II]

9. trump's Maria, and this could be worse than Katrina.

[Raster]

10. This is far worse than Katrina...

...this makes Bush*s response to Katrina look downright humanitarian.

[Skittles]

15. no, it doesn't

stop trying to whitewash Duyba

he was INEPT AND DISGUSTING

[Raster]

18. not in any shape, form or fashion trying to "whitewash" W* or any of his fellow cretins...

...yes, he was inept and disgusting

and please, don't take that tact with me. I despised w* than and still do just as much. You make it sound like I've tried to "whitewash" w* before, WHICH I HAVE NOT.

[Skittles]

19. I am referring to the constant attempts on DU to refer to Dubya as better than he was

he was absolute fucking trash; people are still literally DYING because of that lying, thieving, warmongering bastard

and his response to Katrina was an utter DISGRACE than not even TRUMP can make better

[anneboleyn]

21. People are reaching for a comparison, and frankly Trump is a level of horror that we've never

experienced. Would he start a war every bit as bloody as what we saw under Bush II? Absolutely. The ass stated that his building was the tallest in Manhattan after the WTC collapse -- you know, cause he's just so great. That mentality is just...I don't even have words. THAT is what we are dealing with now. He also doesn't care about America or its political integrity at all, he's willing to create all sorts of chaos and racial violence, and is quite willing to sell out the country to Putin, and recklessly deals with foreign powers that could kill millions (noko, Iran, etc) for his own ego.

This is the first six months.

[Skittles]

22. Bush HELPED CREATE ISIS

PEOPLE DIE EVERY DAY BECAUSE OF GEORGE FUCKING W. BUSH

DON'T USE TRUMP TO MITIGATE THAT PIECE OF SHIT

DONE HERE

[colsohlibgal]

3. OMG

All on Chitolini, what a poor excuse for a human being.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. Brown people dying is the agenda of trump and friends.

[Stonepounder]

13. You beat me to it. Won't change his numbers one bit. n/t

[NastyRiffraff]

5. That's tragic

Dump, though, will just call it "Fake News."

God, how I hate him.

[Ilsa]

6. No one will know unless the media picks up on the story.

The sources have to be rock solid, like doctors and an administrator.

[Squinch]

7. Multiply that by dozens of hospitals and geriatric centers and neonatal centers and

cancer centers and dialysis centers and ....

We're all going to be shocked when the number comes out.

[Old Vet]

8. Totally agree, We really dont know half of it yet.....

[NickB79]

17. Just the diabetics alone who's insulin is shot from lack of refrigeration

Are going to send the death toll soaring.

And if neonatals lost power and babies died? Fuck me.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

11. A place to contribute to PR:

Nelson Rosario referenced this charity as a good way to contribute to relief efforts in Puerto Rico :

"Unidos": A Hurricane Relief Fund for Hurricane Maria Victims in Puerto Rico
http://hispanicfederation.org/media/press_releases/a_hurricane_relief_fund_for_hurricane_maria_victims_in_puerto_rico/

(snip)
A coalition of New York City civic leaders including Mayor Bill DeBlasio, U.S. Congress Members Nydia Velázquez and Adriano Espaillat, and New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito have joined the Hispanic Federation and its partnering community based organizations to launch “Unidos” (United), a hurricane relief fund to help those impacted by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. The fund will be managed by the Hispanic Federation, a leading Latino nonprofit organization with more than 25 years of experience in providing disaster-relief assistance to Latinos in the United States and Latin America. One hundred percent of the proceeds will help hurricane victims and the recovery efforts through fellow community and civic organizations in Puerto Rico.

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Charity Navigator rates the Hispanic Federation about as high as it gets:
https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=4997

[Hekate]

12. KnR

[msongs]

14. verified true or more fake twitter news nt

[Arazi]

16. The death toll here is going to be shattering. Brace yourself

[mercuryblues]

20. there is going to be

only 1 way to calculate the real death toll from this. They will have to add up all the deaths and the get an average of people who passed during this time period from previous years and subtract that from the total.

With morgues and funeral homes closed, no medical examiner to declare someone dead, no power to refrigerate many of the remains. People are burying their own dead, without a death certificate.