• XeroxCool@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    So are you not going to count deaths from Helene resulting from people not evacuating properly? For not taking it seriously because it was preventable?

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      1 month ago

      Individual choices are different from government incompetence resulting in mass casualties. You understand that, right?

      If lightning strikes a skyscraper that doesn’t have sprinklers, causing it to burn down and kill 100 people- did the lightning kill those people or was it the lack of sprinklers?

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      1 month ago

      “Not evacuating properly”? Plenty of the people who died had no idea the storm was going to be as bad as it was when they were hundreds of miles inland in an area that had never had significant flooding.

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        30 days ago

        I’m not saying any or all were preventable, only that OP is cherry picking out one single part of a catastrophe to tweak stats without fairly considering the removal of similar causes from the other event.

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      30 days ago

      Where will poor people go and how would they afford to go and how would they get there?