Notices by Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io), page 2

just putting this here as a cool part of history. it has no bearing in the future, at all. there are no lessons here 🧵 13/?

Management of Dead Bodies
after Disasters: A Field Manual for First Responders, WHO et al, 2006

https://archive.org/details/deadbodiesfieldmanual/mode/2up

@BubblegumYeti
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113511777335121868

@rickirobin @seachanger
Sounds like a day well spent

@talexb
Indeed, where “odd” mostly means “racist.”

@bityz This one is for you: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113511777335121868

@outwitplaylist @catsalad
“Hypothetical physicist”

Several replies fail to distinguish “check out” from “shut out.”

Please, folks, please note the asterisk in the OP. It's an important asterisk.

@pferal https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113511741747010258

@talexb
With both the 26% and the 28%, the “why” is an important question to consider carefully. For starters, please note the asterisk in my OP.

@BillSeitz
Yup, and then half either didn't care or •wanted• to vote but couldn't, and we have very little idea how the balance between those two shakes out, so…grand, sweeping judgements that are actually accurate about the US seem to be elusive.

@MyOpinion
Yeah. Democracy itself is a deeply flawed idea — worse than everything except all the alternatives — but we sure could do a better job of it.

@coolandnormal @jwi
Indeed, and there's a reason why certain people are so keen to maximize how many people are ineligible.

Like…just for starters, if you're walking down the street thinking, “Did HALF of these people really vote for this miserable fascist shitstain?,” the answer to that question is, “No, about a quarter did.”

…Which is still pretty damn depressing, but…well, I find that that thought does give me a substantially different picture of the country I live in.

@janxdevil
Keep in mind that the 26% and the 28% both include people whose vote was suppressed: wanted to vote, but couldn't. So probably not quite a majority are as you describe.

Still damned depressing.

@peterbutler @RnDanger
I pulled total US population, which would include children, and also non-citizens.

@ainmosni
Indeed it does. They're in that 28% too.

Two things we need to be careful about are:

- “eligible but did not vote” includes both apathy and suppression
- “not eligible to vote” also includes suppression

The broader point of my OP here is that there are a lot of analyses circulating that use more meticulously gathered data about •the wrong questions• — or at least about flawed questions that ignore over half the population of the country.

@MyOpinion
No, all of the US is getting what 1/4 of the US asked for.

Re @davids7’s question: my numbers are back-of-napkin calculations using press reports of current vote tally + sloppy web searching for US population and voting-eligible population. Please take my numbers with the appropriate gain of salt.

The broad “each group is about about 1/4” conclusion should be approximately correct, but don't stare too hard at exact percentages until somebody does this calculation a bit more carefully.

https://mastodon.social/@davids7/113511407571843374

@ainmosni
It's supposed to include children, yes. Whole US population.