So how many people do you think died?

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So how many people do you think died?

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Let's see who gets the closest. My guess would be 9,851 once they count all the bodies of people who died during and after Katrina in all the areas.
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What a grim game.
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Yes I know, but I remember during 911 my friends were sayings no less then 50,000 people died because the buildings and the subway had a lot of people.
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shiznit wrote:Yes I know, but I remember during 911 my friends were sayings no less then 50,000 people died because the buildings and the subway had a lot of people.
Is your point that they grossly overestimated? Because the real figure is 2,986
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Yes, the WTC death toll was 2,752.
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I don't know if there were like 600,000 people
Unless some have a real positive mind or can find someone who can change their life, most of them are already half dead.
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pete wrote:I don't know if there were like 600,000 people
Unless some have a real positive mind or can find someone who can change their life, most of them are already half dead.
Pete
you can't be half dead.
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tnf wrote:
pete wrote:I don't know if there were like 600,000 people
Unless some have a real positive mind or can find someone who can change their life, most of them are already half dead.
Pete
you can't be half dead.
Their mind I meant
They will be on antidepressant pills all of their life
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shiznit wrote:Yes, the WTC death toll was 2,752.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_ ... Fatalities
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pete wrote:Their mind I meant
They will be on antidepressant pills all of their life
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Pete seems to think after experiencing hurricane katrina and the resulting mess, everyone will be on medication.

Did that happen after the world wars?
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Foo wrote:
shiznit wrote:Yes, the WTC death toll was 2,752.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_ ... Fatalities
I see, I thought you where talking about the towers only.
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Foo wrote:Pete seems to think after experiencing hurricane katrina and the resulting mess, everyone will be on medication.

Did that happen after the world wars?
Devils advocate: Did they have those medications after the world wars?
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Big Kahuna Burger wrote:
Foo wrote:Pete seems to think after experiencing hurricane katrina and the resulting mess, everyone will be on medication.

Did that happen after the world wars?
Devils advocate: Did they have those medications after the world wars?
Half my point. There seemed to be the notion in what Pete said that terrible tragedy is followed by depression and a lifetime of drugs.

In mentioning drugs, presumably meaning the drugs themselves are somehow a big probem, and not the depression.

I guess this one could get messy.
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it's called post traumatic stress, and after the world wars they did have some medications maybe lithium, but i think they only used them on severe mental disorders. For everybody else it was just get over it. Of course, there was always shock therapy.
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I'm probably going to be called a wingnut, but I am starting to wonder if the reason noone is being allowed in (like the Red Cross, aid from other countries, aid from other states), is because they are trying to hide the real number of dead for political reasons. I'm afraid there could even be over 100,000 but of course I definitely hope I am wrong.
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yup, I'm thinking that myself, the greater number of dead there are, the worse of a tyrant Bush is going to seem, expect a cover up. I think the U.N. should send in observers to monitor the body count.
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I doubt very much the US will actualy give an acurate count of the dead to be perfectly honest so we'll never really know.
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Kracus wrote:I doubt very much the US will actualy give an acurate count of the dead to be perfectly honest so we'll never really know.
And then some of the dead will mysteriously vote Republican in 2006.
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You can't conceal the deaths of people like that, since they have family and friends who will still be alive.

I expect the figures to be accurate when they're eventually worked out.
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Post by R00k »

You can't conceal people from their families and friends - but if only one organization is responsible for getting them out, then only that organization will know what the true number was, unless there's some kind of grass-roots organizing to compare and compile lists.
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Foo wrote:You can't conceal the deaths of people like that, since they have family and friends who will still be alive.

I expect the figures to be accurate when they're eventually worked out.
That's not true, you say a couple thousand died if 10,000 died and I doubt anyone would know the difference unless they began collecting their own stats. Which isn't really that easy to do either.
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Foo wrote:You can't conceal the deaths of people like that, since they have family and friends who will still be alive.

I expect the figures to be accurate when they're eventually worked out.
Right, if I tell you that 3000 died would you not assume that your 4-5 dead family and friends are counted in that total? Or would you go 'No, you are not counting my lot in that!'.

The numbers will be lowballed to make it not look as bad for Bush. Hell if they can do it with their own soldiers in Iraq they could do it to some poor assed minoirity sector too.
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