Looking at food prices converted to AUD.

https://www.numbeo.com/food-prices/in/Charleston?displayCurrency=AUD

Hmmmm Food is outrageously expensive. 8 bucks for a kilo of rice!!!
Someone’s making a lot of money out a rice in this place.
Still, if someone works for an hour they can get a kilo of it and feed their family for a couple meals so that’s pretty good.

“underprivileged residents”

I’m curious about these people, and how they live.
Images I have seen of the region suggest a very high standard of living so your statement is a bit confusing.

Thanks Greg:

That sounds exactly right to me.

I like a good “but for” test.

Hopefully the number will be zero or very low!

That was early August.

More recently, the Milken Institute of Public Health released its study, which uses different methodology that is arguably better, and the result of that study is a much higher rate, close to double of the earlier study.

I’m not sure if 64 being actually 1400 or actuall 3000 makes much difference when we look at Maria, Trump, FEMA, Puerto Rico, and climate change.

But, if anyone wants to look into it further, he’s the latest report:

https://prstudy.publichealth.gwu.edu/sites/prstudy.publichealth.gwu.edu/files/reports/Acertainment%20of%20the%20Estimated%20Excess%20Mortality%20from%20Hurricane%20Maria%20in%20Puerto%20Rico.pdf

We’ll count the number of people who died but would not have had the storm not caused them to die!

Remember, ricka is not only intentionally dishonest in everything he says and does, he’s incapable of understanding anything relating to science, mathematics, or statistics, so his habit of rejecting studies that have results he doesn’t like isn’t a flaw, it’s a feature central to his person

It is interesting that you think accurate death attribution is belittling the deaths of 3000 people.

When I look at this graph I eyeball about 1300 excess deaths:

http://econbrowser.com/archives/2018/06/excess-deaths-inferred-from-puerto-rican-administrative-data

I wonder if incorrectly attributing 1700 deaths to a hurricane is belittling?

Oh well – you are certainly entitled to your opinion.

What can I add to this that Steve hasn’t already elegantly captured?

+1.

Inquiring minds want to know.

You don’t have an inquiring mind. I’ll hand over to SteveP, who beat me to it:

Rather than come across as a witty inquiring mind, RickA, you have come across as a stupid, needling, annoying, sociopathic, conservative prick. […] You should seriously consider growing up and not doing your dehumanizing shit here any more.

BTW, belittling the deaths of 3,000 people is immature and inappropriate at best, sick and dehumanizing at worst. Rather than come across as a witty inquiring mind, RickA, you have come across as a stupid, needling, annoying, sociopathic, conservative prick. Conservatives have been raping Puerto Rico economically and psychologically since before the 1890’s, and RickA, you apparently felt compelled to join into the latest remnants of that cluster fuck. What a typical, heartless, brainless, conservative political pervert you are. You should seriously consider growing up and not doing your dehumanizing shit here any more. It will be better for you if you do.