NYT reports study of Katrina dead - MOST DIED AFTER THE STORM

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Mon Dec-19-05 02:02 AM
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NYT reports study of Katrina dead - MOST DIED AFTER THE STORM

FINALLY, a study that attempts to ask how a group - about a quarter � of the deaths attributed to Hurricane Katrina REALLY happened. As we all suspected, most deaths happened AFTER the storm had passed, usually due to flooding or lack of supplies or care. And most of the deaths examined happened to people with lower incomes. In a striking omission, the article does not give racial demographics for their sample. Gee, I wonder why?

The Bush Administration has this blood on its hands. The numbers of hurricane dead are very likely grossly underestimated, just as TRUE NUMBERS OF IRAQI DEAD GREATLY EXCEED Administration estimates and are actively suppressed:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5616912
thread title (12/16 GD): "Lancet study now censored because it shows a mass murder"

Truly, the volume of blood from Bush Administration murders is a flood of its own, and no mountain of lies can keep it contained.

I wish I could excerpt more than the 4 paragraphs allowed. I urge you to read the entire article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/18/national/nationalspecial/18victims.html?th&emc=th

Louisiana's Deadly Storm Took Strong as Well as the Helpless

By SHAILA DEWAN and JANET ROBERTS
Published: December 18, 2005

NEW ORLEANS - More than 100 of them drowned. Sixteen died trapped in attics. More than 40 died of heart failure or respiratory problems, including running out of oxygen. At least 65 died because help - shelter, water or a simple dose of insulin - came too late.

A study by The New York Times of more than 260 Louisianans who died during Hurricane Katrina or its aftermath found that almost all survived the height of the storm but died in the chaos and flooding that followed.

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New Orleans almost three-quarters of the black victims examined by The Times and almost half the white victims lived in neighborhoods where the average income was below $43,000, the city's overall average. In New Orleans, the median income for whites is almost twice what it is for blacks. Many, if not most, were Louisiana natives, and virtually all were members of the working class - nurses, janitors, barbers, merchant marines.

(snip)

They {Eddie Cherrie Jr. and his 91-year-old mother, Onelia, who used a walker and blood pressure medication} survived the storm but were later taken by helicopter to the airport, where officials separated a badly dehydrated Ms. Cherrie from her son, leaving her to die alone, he said. Mr. Cherrie said if the levees had not broken, she would have survived. "That's malfeasance," he said.

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Let�s not forget how FEMA blocked a doctor from treating dying patients at the airport � and there were deaths as a result.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1786336
thread title (Sept 16 LBN): Doctor says FEMA ordered him to stop treating hurricane victims

Perhaps Mrs. Cherrie was one of these � in any case, she was separated even from her son and she not only died in FEMA�s un-tender care, she died ALONE, and at least partially due to dehydration and stress, NOT the hurricane. The NYT article gives a number of other examples of such needless, cruel deaths caused by the Administration's criminal negligence and monstrous decisions. These deaths were NOT due to the hurricane, they were due to the Bush Administration�s criminal, murderous mishandling of the preparation for and response to the hurricane. So much for the "Culture of Life." What would Jesus say? How much more obvious could it be to anyone with eyes and a heart that the administration DOES NOT CARE?

And now we hear that the demolition of thousands of homes in New Orleans is set to begin:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/17/national/nationalspecial/17demolish.html?fta=y
NYT article title (12/17): Demolition of Thousands of Houses Is Set to Begin
Given the record of the administration, questions that should be unthinkable have to be asked: How many of these houses still contain bodies? And how many are being destroyed not because they are too damaged for safety as claimed, but because there are profits for landlords and profiteers buying up cheap land for development, or simply to keep the poor away?