RE: Welcome to Darfur, Michigan
September 30, 2014 at 9:14 pm
(This post was last modified: September 30, 2014 at 9:18 pm by Heywood.)
(September 30, 2014 at 8:52 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(September 30, 2014 at 8:40 pm)Beccs Wrote: To any decent minded person, as far as I'm concerned, access to the basics, such as water, is a fucking right.
Not only that - but NOT having access to water is a fucking public health hazard.
Wait until the *people* (emphasis on that word for the empathy-impaired) who have been shut off to turn up at the emergency room with dehydration, dysentery or cholera and we'll see just how penny wise and pound foolish this fucking decision is.
So far this year they have shut off 24,000 accounts. How many people are served under each account? Well the average household size in Detroit is 2.77 so I am guessing that so far this year...66480 people in Detroit have had water service to their homes cut off.
If 66480 people in Detroit really have no access to water...possibly as long as 10 months.....why arn't the streets filled with bodies of people who died of dehydration, dysentery, or cholera? Why arn't the emergency rooms packed? Typically you take the dirt nap after about 3 days without water......so why isn't the tragedy you claim will happen...happening?
Now I haven't made up my mind about this judges decision but I have come to the conclusion that water is still a resource that is fairly easy for the citizens Detroit to obtain even if water service to their homes is cut off.
