This article leads with such a preposterous supposition that the deaths are caused by the shutdown, I had to go to it just so I could get info to post it here.
Normally I would never click on Washington Compost. I might actually consider using their print publication for toilet paper, but I don't want to get ink on my butt.
First clue this article is propaganda, or unreadable stench due BS is publisher Washington Post.
“Normally I would never click on Washington Compost.”
Gee. Thanks for the post then. (eyes rolling up)
Trump pushed her.
What nonsense. Dozens and dozens of people die in America’s National Parks every year. I know, I live near four of them including Yosemite.
Why did she do that? And why wasn't someone there to catch her? Pelosi's fault.
I bet more people have died when the gov was open.
The only people who are upset about the shut-down are left-wing so-called journalists and garden-variety demoncraps.
“National Park Service spokesman Jeremy Barnum said in an interview that a total of seven people have died in national parks since the shutdown began. Officials believe that four of the deaths were suicides, he added. An average of six people die each week in the park system, he said, a figure that includes accidents like drownings, falls, and motor vehicle crashes, natural causes such as heart attacks and suicides.”
Read that carefully because the “journalist” will not draw the conclusion for you.
National Park deaths went DOWN during the government shutdown.
What about the guardian angel ranger assigned to each person who enters a park? That ranger wasn’t there to hold the hands of these unfortunates. If only Orange Man hadn’t shut the parks down, your own Personal Guardian Angel Ranger would be there to protect you.
It is foolish to risk one’s life -( and let’s transfer the parks to their states to oversee, anyway. The fed govt has zero business operating parks)
“This article leads with such a preposterous supposition that the deaths are caused by the shutdown,”
Yes, the statistic should be put against the number of fatalities that occur in spite of the Parks being attended by Rangers. Millions of people visit National Parks and Monuments every year. I just imagine that a few deaths occur as a consequence of those visits.
This story stinks, even by Compost’s standards.
Breaking news, thousands of patients on Medicare and Medicaid have died since the government shutdown began.
Black holes are out of sight!
Taking a selfie maybe?
The government shutdown did nothing to change the laws of gravity. I’m just sayin’.
Trucking through the night about 4-5 years ago, I was listening to “coast to coast am” (kook to kook). George Noory was interviewing an expert on people that go missing without a trace in the Nat Parks. (It helped to keep me wide awake.) For family to lose members is tragic, and without closure is very sad.
Then they went to break for ads. The bumper song was “Photograph” by Ringo. I thought that was appropriate. They came back from break with “Another park another Sunday” by the doobie brothers. I admit I did chuckle for a moment at the programmer choice.
What a dishonest title for an article!!!
Yeah, the federal worker that's usually holding the net at the bottom of the cliff wasn't there so she died.
No; it was the worker at the TOP that usually put's the leashes on the 14 yos and younger.
I've BEEN to this overlook and there is NO 'federal worker' there at all!
