Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Hurricane Maria was "the worst humanitarian crisis in modern American history." pic.twitter.com/LJXw2mjQXL
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I am trying to wrap my head around the term “crisis.” I feel that this word is overly used. Then I looked up the definition:
cri·sis
ˈkrīsis/Submit
noun
a time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger.
“the current economic crisis”
synonyms: emergency, disaster, catastrophe, calamity; More
a time when a difficult or important decision must be made.
“a crisis point of history”
synonyms: critical point, turning point, crossroads, watershed, head, moment of truth, zero hour, point of no return, Rubicon, doomsday; More
the turning point of a disease when an important change takes place, indicating either recovery or death.
And with the lack of a difficult decision made and a change indicating recovery or death then yes it was the worst humanitarian crisis in modern American history.
Twice the fatalities of Katrina, which shocked the world and broke a presidency. But they mostly died at home, at the end of a long stretch of broken, impassable road. The media documented that there was a huge problem, we all saw the images, but there weren’t bodies floating in the streets, or masses crowded into a hellish stadium. Just people dying in their own beds for lack of food, or potable water, or medical care they needed, in houses dotted across the countryside. And this president claims it was an unsung success, and his party remains shamefully silent.
Vote, if you don’t like it. We have to end this ongoing disgrace.
Well I do not know we have thousands of immigrant kids in jails, detention centers, ect.; all part of Trump’s final solution. Truly a life changing event for these children, parents and relatives. Purposely inacted.
This is why I was having a hard time trying to decide what crisis meant. Flint, kids in cages, and Puerto Rico are all calamities that happened, are continuing to happen, because of poor planning, poor decision making, and poor response to the situation that decision resulted in. These are not unintended consequences, we should have enough past knowledge to predict these outcomes.
Putting on my Contrarian Cap: Even allowing for the change in methods of counting deaths attributed to hurricanes, the first two things that came to my mind were the tsunamis in Indonesia and Japan. This statement qualifies as Trumpian in its hyperbole.