Posted on 09/12/2005 11:03:13 PM PDT by DaveTesla
The state Department of Health and Hospitals said today Louisiana's death toll from Hurricane Katrina now stands at 279. That figure, which comes from statistics reported by local coroners to state officials, includes 242 bodies at the metrowide morgue at St. Gabriel, three bodies in St. Charles Parish, 25 bodies in Jefferson Parish, six bodies in St. Tammany Parish and three bodies in New Iberia Parish.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
Bottom line, before all the hype and exaggeration, had we been told that over 500 would perish in a Hurricane on the Gulf Coast, it would have seemed like a very troubling number. Now, we've become so jaded by the hype that we're celebrating 500+ deaths.
If this were on CNN, she probably would have added 'and it is Bush's fault.'
post 34, I agree.
Actually given the magnitude of the disaster, I would say this was a damned good evacuation.
My guess when I saw this happening was 10 thousand dead. I am amazed.
So the average number of deaths in Orleans Parish in 5 days would have been around 128. Of course, this would be skewed by the doctors euthanizing 45 patients on ventilators at Memorial Hospital. Strange that the staff didn't do that at Charity Hospital but actually hand-ventilated patients for days until they could air-lift them out, and they had gangs in their facility at the time. Fox interviewed one of the doctors who was the last to leave and he told of their heroic measures to keep their patients going. Makes one wonder....
Gosh, what did George Bush do with all those missing bodies?
I'm a bit skeptical about that euthanasia story but even if true, I understand other NO hospitals (VA in particular) were evacuated.
as far as I know detailed information on corpses and their condition/cause of death from the convention center and superdum are not being released.
Yeah Right!
You mean the public records that are under water?
The state capital, Baton Rouge, is not under water. The national capital, Washington, is not under water. And even the records that were housed in New Orleans were probably backed up.
It's the 20th Century, dude. Any moderately sophisticated data mining operation can scan driver's licenses, magazine subscriptions, utility bills and government assistance records to come up with a list of the residents of each neighborhood. People who were passing through can be tracked by their credit/debit card use and phone calls home. Assemble a list from those records, then scratch off anyone who turns up alive.
I don't think they (City, state officials)were doing any canvassing of the survivors.
You might want to look into a little something called verb tenses. They will canvass the survivors, I said. That doesn't mean they have. There wasn't a decent list of casualties for weeks after 9/11, or a comprehensive list for months.
And if Orleans Parish were operating under normal circumstances, when deaths could be documented shortly after they ocurred, your math would be relevant. No one with a wisp of sense believes that the 279 confirmed deaths are all the people who have died in the last two weeks, or indeed in the first twelve hours of August 29.
This post was started to point the main stream media's manipulation of facts.
But you seem convinced that that it was error with no malice.
It wasn't manipulation, error or malice. It's uncertainty. Catching up with those facts takes time. I'll remind you yet again that a week after 9/11, the estimates of the dead ran over 10,000. It took time for the facts to catch up.
The data mining you suggest would take three to six months to complete.
Your point?
In the basement of the Civil District Courthouse on Poydras Street, three blocks from the Superdome, water has lapped over 20% of the 60,000 leather-bound books of the New Orleans Notarial Archives. The books contain the records of all property transfers in the city that have occurred in the modern era.
Again, your point? The question at hand is who was present, not who transferred property. And even if the only records of property transfers are on sodden paper, I'm sure the state has electronic records of who owed, and who paid, property taxes.
Do your homework before running your argumrnitive keyboard.
Take your own advice.
Even a fool can see what is going on here.
And facts seem to matter little to you.
That's rich. I've posted specific facts, which you have declined to address. To wit, that there is always initial uncertainty when there are mass casualties, and that early reporting always reflects that. Rather than address that, you've decided to ignore it, and beat the "lying media" drum over and over.
Son, do not post to me again.
I'm not your son, and I don't take orders from you.
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