From: Skeeter <skeeterweed@photonmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: FEMA has no money for North Carolina but spends on the sniffles instead
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 17:06:26 -0600
Organization: UTB
In article <veh0bt$occ8$2@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com says...
>
> On 2024-10-13 07:28, NoBody wrote:
> > On Sat, 12 Oct 2024 13:57:13 -0700, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2024-10-12 11:49, NoBody wrote:
> >>>
> >>> The Federal Emergency Management Agency budgeted 20-times more cash
> >>> for its response to Covid last month than it spent on Hurricane Helene
> >>> aid.
> >>> Official documents reveal that Fema set aside $4.9 billion in
> >>> coronavirus aid in September, although the pandemic was officially
> >>> declared over more than 12 months ago.
> >>> The figure was in contrast to the $210 million initially allocated to
> >>> support victims of the tropical storm that ripped through North
> >>> Carolina late last month.
> >>> The death toll for Hurricane Helene currently stands at more than 220,
> >>> although some bodies are still being found among the rubble.
> >>> It comes as the agency faces the dual challenge of a funding crunch
> >>> and staff shortages as Hurricane Milton barrels towards Florida.
> >>>
> >>> https://archive.is/hXFi2#selection-2861.0-2885.1
> >>
> >> The fact that you call COVID-19 "the sniffles" tells me a lot about you.
> >>
> >> Currently (in the past week), 1.9% of deaths in the US are due to COVID-19.
> >
> > Deaths "from" or "with" Covid?
> > Oh and your citation is missing as well.
>
> Oh, please. Not that again.
>
> If the death rate rises for people with COVID-19 it doesn't matter if
> they died from some other cause.
Yea, it does when the media is reporting all these people dying from
Covid when it should have been reporting people "with" Covid.
>
> >
> >>
> >> How many are actually dying from a cold?
> >
> > People die from respiratory issues all the time but your running away
> > from the fact FEMA is spending money on Covid -- why? This is not
> > part of FEMA's role.
>
> Really?
>
> You're intimately familiar with all of FEMA's roles are you?
Enough to know they have nothing to do with Covid.