Right. Which is why it would be a man-made disaster and not a natural disaster. The same with Katrina and the levees. Katrina was a natural disaster, but what killed the people in New Orleans was the levees not getting repaired when they needed to be.

And it's different from people refusing to evacuate since that's on them, it's not an issue of other people's incompetence being the cause of mass casualties.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

it’s different from people refusing to evacuate since that’s on them

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?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The former. Which was my point. They were not deaths caused by the hurricane itself.

[–] MonkeyDatabase@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

~~Guns~~ Hurricanes don't kill people.