Oh hey, they finally acknowledge deaths from hospitals that lost power and those that died from having regular medical supplies cut off
Why didn’t they include those to begin with?
Half the people died here as compared to 9/11, and our administration condemns them (our voting citizens) for complaining that they're not getting help to recover from this crisis.
Woah! That's shocking. It's the sort of natural disaster death toll I expect to hear about in third world countries, but not the US. I suppose Puerto Rico being in a 'sort-of-state-but-not' situation contributes to the lack of empathy from their own government.
I think that has more to do with our current administration than just being a territory.
Honestly I could see Puerto Rico leaving the Union over this treatment.
Because they are brown and vote democrat
And lack of care from the populace if that guy yelling at the woman wearing a Puerto Rican flag shirt on the 4th of July is any indication.
Unfortunately many Americans are unaware that Peurto Rico is a part of the United States.
Puerto Rico's infrastructure was subpar compared to the mainland US before the storm, which didn't help.
I think it being on a relatively small island doesn't help either, as it makes evacuation far more complex.
I find that unlikely. The John Oliver piece on Puerto Rico a few years back suggested that there's not even majority support for statehood. Whilst I think that's probably changed by now, independence movements don't seem to react as expected to calamitous events the way we'd expect. For example, even though 66% of Scots voted to remain in the EU and are now forced to depart it, there's still not majority support for independence. I think fervour for independence tends to come from how nationalist one is and lots of terrible treatment over a longer period of time. The potato famine in Ireland was a huge event that means the population in Ireland is now actually less than it was at the beginning of the 1800s. This generated lots of interest in independence, but it was created more due to a series of mistakes made by a careless, cruel government.
Hey, remember this?
https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/politics/trump-puerto-rico-katrina-deaths/index.html
Good job, Mr. President.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/08/09/the-revised-death-toll-in-puerto-rico-makes-trumps-comparison-to-katrina-look-even-worse/
We can now make it official: The Trump administration's response to Hurricane Maria was a real catastrophe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcTXqouiM4U
When I was a teenager there was this very short lived show on Nickelodeon (I think) that centred on a Puerto Rican family living in America. They acted like they were foreign immigrants and spoke about Puerto Rico like it was a separate country. At the time all I knew about Puerto Rico was the name and had no idea that it was a part of America, and I just accepted what they said on the show.
I imagine it's much the same for most Americans. I've seen the maps of America you guys have, they're weirdly inaccurate and I'm not surprised they don't include mentions of US territories. The American maps of America I've seen (both on TV and in person in America) make the continental US look HUGE, shrinking Canada and Mexico on the top and bottom, and just slap Hawaii and Alaska on the side. Hawaii are probably lucky they're a state or they wouldn't even get to be on the maps.
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