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: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 08:29:05 -0600
Organization: UTB
In article <vei4su$12aif$2@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com says...
>
> On 2024-10-13 17:41, Skeeter wrote:
> > In article <vehke3$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?
>
> So you literally just wrote that you KNEW "they" (FEMA) "have nothing to
> do with Covid".
>
> So why not just admit you were wrong?
Because I'm not.