Ian Lessons, Martha’s Migrants & the Steel Dossier – Top 3 Takeaways – October 13th
- Older & Wiser? That’s generally the case in life. But there’s something else our parents also are at a certain age. More vulnerable. As medical examiners are continuing to evaluate the cause of death of the 103 Floridians confirmed to have died due to Hurricane Ian, a few realities have come into focus which are worth some additional consideration. First, water strikes again. If I’ve reported it once, I’ve reported it a hundred times. Water, not wind, is responsible for most deaths in hurricanes. Ian, Florida’s deadliest hurricane since 1935, has proven no different. Most deaths thus far, 59% of Ian-related deaths in Florida, are the result of drowning. As for the other causes of death, 13% died as a result of not being able to obtain needed medical services. 10% of Ian’s deaths were due to exposure, 6% trauma derived from wind damage, 5% died of injuries sustained during the impact of the hurricane. Rounding out the causes of death are vehicle accidents during the storm and suicides. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Most of these deaths, potentially all of them, were preventable. But my top takeaway was specifically about those who are older for a reason. 88 of the 103 Ian-attributed deaths in Florida were among those over the age of 50, with 63% of all deaths coming with those over the age of 70. Unlike in the case of the elderly victims who died due to exposure at the now defunct Rehabilitation Center in Hollywood Hills, following failures by the operators after Hurricane Irma, these victims were overwhelmingly elderly people who chose unwisely to ride out the storm. Evacuations are a pain. Evacuations can be expensive. But evacuations can be the difference between life and death. It’s clear that in addition to water once again being the biggest danger to the lives of Floridians during a major hurricane, we need to be especially mindful of the thoughts and decision making process of our parents during these types of events.
- Just because they’re older doesn’t mean they’ll always make the wisest decisions. And some of that comes down to circumstances. As mentioned, the second leading cause of death was the inability to receive needed medical care during the impact of the storm. This is important food for thought. What happens if there’s a medical emergency during the impact of a hurricane? Even if a person isn’t in a mandatory evacuation zone, but is near the point of impact, and has a medical emergency, what then? And this leads to the next point. The impact of the hurricane isn’t the X-number of hours of elevated winds. 911 call centers were down for days in impacted areas after the storm. What happens if the storm has passed and there’s a medical emergency? But emergency services aren’t able to be reached? These are contingencies that aren’t often discussed in hurricane prep conversations. And what’s more, with extensive power outages and the threat of exposure, there’s actually a greater risk for medical emergencies to arise after the impact of a hurricane as well. It’d be unwise to have the deadliest hurricane in our state in 87 years and not learn from it. My biggest takeaway from Ian’s aftermath is the need to more comprehensively consider the decisions made by our parents when they’re in the paths of hurricanes, considering all of the potential implications of riding out a storm.
- Martha’s Migrants & the Steel Dossier. You can’t make this up. On the same day that FBI supervisory analyst Brian Auten testified that Christopher Steel was offered $1 million by the FBI, of your tax dollars mind you, to verify any of the allegations in his Dossier which was the origin of the entire Trump-Russia collusion fraud...comes news of the Treasury Department’s biggest current concern. Martha’s migrants. Now Steel never received that $1 million payment, because he couldn’t prove a single allegation made in the dossier according to Auten, however the wholly corrupted FBI and DOJ’s use of it as fact-based evidence anyway did cost an eventual $35 million in the Muller investigation to prove that it was a hoax. Let alone the impact on the country and the cost of a fraudulent impeachment trial in Congress. And whatever Durham’s final tab ends up being. But is Biden’s Treasury Department concerned about those funds? Clearly not. Because their priority is a formal audit of Florida’s use of “CARE’s Act” funds in the transporting of Martha’s migrants. Now, not to get bogged down in the facts here but this isn’t complicated. The Florida legislature authorized $12 million of interest earned with deposited CARE’s Act funds for the relocation program – of which only a fraction has been used. There’s your audit Treasury. But what this does raise once again is the impact of Biden’s open border...what’s the cost of all of processing and federal transporting all of these illegals again Treasury? Is that at all legal use of our tax dollars? So, here’s what DeSantis should do. Send a bus load to Biden’s beach in Delaware, and spend the remaining $12 million to deliver illegals to the doorstep of the Treasury Department in Washington D.C. along with a note that states...Paid in full. The biggest swamps still aren’t in Florida. They remain in Washington D.C. And the current swamp creatures are every bit as invasive as Burmese pythons.