this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2024
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It isn't though, you need to examine why those people were unwilling or unable to evacuate.
This is a systemic failure; our systems failed to adequately enable and incentivize people to evacuate. Do you judge a country's covid response by the number of people killed by covid, or just chalk that up to people's individual choices too?
The former. Which was my point. They were not deaths caused by the hurricane itself.
~~Guns~~ Hurricanes don't kill people.