Dengue, Zika, etc.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/one-more-thing-for-puerto-rico-to-worry-about-disease-ridden-mosquitoes/?
@doschicos dang 
I just got news in the last day or so that they’re not fearing a cholera outbreak- which is good news, all things considered.
The cholera outbreak in Haiti after that earthquake was brought to Haiti by one of the UN aid workers from Nepal. Cholera has to come in from somewhere. It is not endemic.
Ouch! That’ll be a long 9 day wait. So arrival will be about 2.5 weeks after Maria hit the island.
Yeah :(.
CongressActNow is now trending on twitter. It's calling on Congress to act now on PR.
Perhaps aid is moving so slowly because 47% of Americans don’t realize that Puerto Ricans are US citizens?
http://thehill.com/latino/352466-poll-nearly-half-in-us-unaware-that-puerto-ricans-are-citizens
^^^^^GOOD GRIEF, Americans are an ignorant bunch.
When I taught school years ago, I would do a geography test on my 8th graders to get a feel for where they were on that score. You would not believe how many kids could not identify the USA on a world map; forget identifying the seven continents or any other foreign countries.
And many people don’t think New Mexico is a state or they think West Virginia is part of Virginia.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12512979
But, the White House should know and respond accordingly!
It can get confusing what with a border crossing check point between San Diego and Orange County I always thought San Diego was was inside the US.
I’m shocked that it’s as low as 47%.
One of my colleagues took off for PR this morning. Not sure how long he’s planning on being down there but I know he wanted to go see the extent of damage and whatnot where his elderly mother lives. We’re all waiting on any news 
When I traveled to KY for a Girl Scout event in 1960s with girls from all over the US, they marveled that I spoke English so well and asked what I lived in and how I got electricity. They watched Hawaii 5-0 with Jack Lord back then but still had visions of grass shacks and exotic languages.
I am concerned we would have a LOT of trouble recovering from a tremendous natural disaster as well, so find the slow and very lukewarm response to Puerto Rico VERY concerning.
“We’ve gotten A-pluses on Texas and in Florida, and we will also on Puerto Rico,” Trump said. “But the difference is this is an island sitting in the middle of an ocean. It’s a big ocean, it’s a very big ocean. And we’re doing a really good job.” From Washington Post article, quoting Trump.
I found that idea just astonishing. It is part of a close chain of islands. Puerto Rico is not remote.
And why haven’t they lifted the Jones Act like they did for Texas and Florida? Why do we still even have that law? It had something to do with the fear of u-boats but without it, PR could easily get relief from neighboring islands.
I’m glad my state is mobilizing a shipment of supplies to be brought there. I feel so bad for the misery they must be suffering.
Here’s some tidbits from Fox News today:
Less than 1/3 of PR’s hospital’s have power.
PR has a larger population than 21 of the states.
Agree that not lifting the Jones Act in light of this dire emergency situation affecting 3.4 million people doesn’t make any sense but here’s the official comment on it this afternoon:
“Well we’re thinking about it but we have a lot of shippers, and a lot of people, and a lot of people who work in the shipping industry that don’t want the Jones Act lifted.”
The Jones Act is outdated and irrelevant anyway, other than the fact that it makes PR pay more for goods. It should be halted even without the storm but now it is unconscionable to still have it in place.
dos, that comment is heartbreaking. People’s lives are way way way WAY more important than any industry.
The Jones Act is protecting the US Shipping industry and their high labor costs because of unions. It is meant to force cruise ships and shipping companies from carrying freight or passengers between US ports.
It’s hilarious in the cruising industry. The only US flag cruise ships were in the Hawaiian islands. All other cruise ships, which are all foreign flag based, have to divert to Ensenada or Vancouver BC on West Coast in order to arrive from a foreign port even if they originated from a US port.
Heck, just have all the humanitarian supplies stop in Bermuda or Dominican Republic for 10 minutes
Why isn’t there a massive airlift of supplies? This is insane.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/26/news/puerto-rico-flights/index.html
Radar and communications difficult at the airport. United and Southwest offering humanitarian flights only. More military flights are using the airport for relief efforts.
If this is the way we handle a crisis for a population so large, how are would we conduct operations in the event of a war? If the answer is we could do it in a war scenario, we should be doing it now, IMO.