"Because of electricity situation, a lot of people died, & are still dying. You can't get sick now."

[kpete]

CAGUAS, P.R. — Harry Figueroa, a teacher who went a week without the oxygen that helped him breathe, died here last week at 58. His body went unrefrigerated for so long that the funeral director could not embalm his badly decomposed corpse.

Miguel Bastardo Beroa’s kidneys are failing. His physicians at the intensive care unit at Doctors Hospital in Carolina are treating him for a bacterial disease that he probably caught in floodwaters contaminated with animal urine.

José L. Cruz wakes up in the middle of the night three times a week to secure a spot in line for dialysis. His treatment hours have been cut back to save fuel for the generators that power the center.

“Because of the electricity situation, a lot of people died, and are still dying,” said Mr. Figueroa’s daughter, Lisandra, 30. “You can’t get sick now.”




https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/us/puerto-rico-power-hospitals.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

[Angry Dragon]

1. Trump has it under control and he is doing a fine job

A BIG FAT BULLSHIT

[procon]

2. We still don't know how many Americans have died on P.R., and won't

learn the full extent of the carnage until the roads, power and communications lines are restored. When the awful news breaks, the numbers will be horrendous.