15 Sep 2022 7:11 pm
roadkill » 15 Sep 2022, 7:05 pm » wrote: ↑ "What's the carrying capacity of Martha's Vineyard?We found ourselves asking this question on Thursday when the island off Cape Cod announced that it was experiencing a "humanitarian crisis" after 50 people arrived there seeking shelter. These were reportedly migrants, some of whom may be refugees from Venezuela's communist dictatorship, who had reportedly been flown up to Martha's Vineyard on a plane sent to pick them up from Texas by Florida Gov. Rick DeSantis.The island's officials announced that its residents, towns, and "community-based, non-profit" groups had sprung into action to provide food, shelter, health care, and other amenities to the new arrivals. They noted that two "emergency shelters" had been established "in case further arrivals occur."
"So how much capacity does Martha's Vineyard have to shelter refugees? Census data reports that there are around 17,000 year-long residents and around 14,600 homes on the island. Let's estimate that each home has four bedrooms and each bedroom can comfortably sleep three people. This would bring the island's sleep capacity up to 175,200 beds, and 158,200 would be unoccupied.If anything, this likely underestimates the sleeping capacity of the island. During the summer months, the island is said to regularly house 200,000 people at a time. If you really packed people in, allowing for sleeping in living rooms and libraries and dining rooms and studies, you could easily house a 400,000."
it just makes you feel so compassionate doesn't it?
