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 18:41:00 -0600
Organization: UTB
In article <vehke3$s0ij$3@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com says...
>
> On 2024-10-13 16:06, Skeeter wrote:
> > In article <veh0bt$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.
>
> It's called "excess deaths".
>
> You can see the normal expected rate of deaths from all causes for a
> population.
>
> COVID-19 caused deaths above that expected rate.
>
> >>
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 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.
> Really?
>
> Because your orange jesus put them in charge of it:
Do you see Trump as Jesus? I don't. But you loons are always saying shit
like that.
<asking for a friend>
>
> 'The Federal Emergency Management Agency ? which the White House has put
> in charge of coordinating the federal response ? is pulling supplies
> from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?s national stockpile
> and working with private companies to ramp up production.'
>
> <https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/22/politics/pritzker-illinois-states-competing-medical-supplies/index.html>
>
> And if that's not enough (because you'll pretend CNN must be lying):
>
> 'President Donald J. Trump Directs FEMA Support Under Emergency
> Declaration for COVID-19'
>
> <https://www.fema.gov/news-release/20200514/president-donald-j-trump-directs-fema-support-under-emergency-declaration>
So?