You do the math.

44	sheets in a roll of paper towel
+97	people killed by border patrol at the U.S./Mexico border in the last 15 years
+1475	immigrant children lost by the U.S. government
+800	thousands of DREAMers
+89.7	percentage of U.S.-born hispanics who are proficient in English
+20	countries in Latin America
+15	countries that don't count as countries
+120	years of U.S. colonial rule in Puerto Rico
+9	years it was illegal to fly the Puerto Rican flag
+35	percentage of Puerto Rican women of child-bearing age forcibly sterilized in the 1960s and 70s
+27	percentage by which the cancer rate on the island of Vieques, the site of 60 years of bomb tests by the U.S. Navy, is higher than that of the Puerto Rican mainland
+16	weeks "Despacito" topped the Billboard Hot 100
+10	the President's rating of federal response to Hurricane María, on a scale of 1-10
+43	days it took the federal government to approve permanent disaster work in Puerto Rico
+283	schools in Puerto Rico that closed after the hurricane
+3.4	billions of hours of electricity lost
+300	millions of dollars awarded to a small Montana company to rebuild Puerto Rico's entire electric infrastructure
+179	thousands of airline passengers who left Puerto Rico for the United States between September and November 2017
+4.9	millions of Puerto Ricans in the United States
+64	the official death toll according to the government of Puerto Rico
+10	the number of hours by which cable news coverage of a baby boomer comedienne's racist comments and subsequent fall from grace exceeded coverage of the revelation that the actual death toll in Puerto Rico was 70 times higher than the official count
+1000	the margin of error of the death toll

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4,645 dead
give or take a thousand
in Puerto Rico
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