Count the dead. It is the respectful thing to do.

[deminks]

And now, counting the dead is yet another difference between Dems and the deplorables.

https://www.rawstory.com/news/2005/FEMA_outsources_Katrina_body_count_to_firm_implicated_in_bodydumping_scan_0913.html

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has hired Kenyon International to set up a mobile morgue for handling bodies in Baton Rouge, Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina, RAW STORY has learned.

Kenyon is a subsidiary of Service Corporation International (SCI), a scandal-ridden Texas-based company operated by a friend of the Bush family. Recently, SCI subsidiaries have been implicated in illegally discarding and desecrating corpses

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/we-still-dont-know-how-many-people-died-because-of-katrina/

We Still Don’t Know How Many People Died Because Of Katrina

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast and the New Orleans levees failed, we still don’t know how many people died in the storm and its aftermath.

The uncertainty about the death toll is evident in the variety of numbers being reported by the media. A local news station in Georgia: 1,200. AccuWeather: 1,800. Insurance Journal: more than 1,800. The New Orleans Times-Picayune: 1,833. A local news station in western Michigan: 1,836.

There is still no memorial listing the names of Katrina victims, still no way to know how many remain uncounted or unidentified, and still no agreement on how to count victims if a storm of Katrina’s impact hits the U.S. again. Ten years on, we’re still in the dark.

Trump has learned well from the original deplorables (Cheney/Bush).

Researchers in May said nearly 5000 may have died in Puerto Rico.

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/puerto-rico-crisis/hurricane-maria-death-toll-puerto-rico-thousands-higher-official-count-n878186

/rant off

[NCTraveler]

1. K&R nt

[Girard442]

2. Based on the population of Puerto Rico, the ferocity of Maria, and...

...the anemic response by the federal government, the estimates we've heard recently still seem low to me.

[gratuitous]

4. Yeah, it's the "respectful" thing to do

But there were no repercussions for Republicans for their horrible response to Katrina, and so far nobody seems too interested in holding the Trump administration accountable for its feckless response to Maria. Well, other than some dirty fucking hippies, a few foreigners in Puerto Rico* who don't talk good English, and one or two snowflake ultra leftists.

If Republicans lose some elections maybe they'll get it together, but the naggy little details of running a government really isn't in their wheelhouse. Can they get back to looting the Treasury now? We've wasted enough time on this dreary issue already, haven't we?

*Yeah, I know that Puerto Ricans are American citizens, but you wouldn't know that by listening to 95% of the coverage in the popular media.