Disaster

Death tolls are a tricky thing. Everyday or every so many hours the death toll for the number of people confirmed dead or missing jumps. I realize this is a tragic reflection of the devastation, but how is it that 20,000 can be confirmed dead, than in an hour 30,000 are confirmed dead? Who is counting the bodies? I'm not trying to make light of this, it's really weird to me. 

 

My main concern with these numbers is how this storm or that tragedy is considered the worst of all time based on some estimated number. Everything is a competition, all of a sudden Burma is out of the news and China is in. 

 

China's death toll is expected to top 50,000 while Burma's state media have raised the official death toll to 43,318 with 27,838 missing, how do they get these numbers? How can 100,000 people all just die within such a short time frame? So close to each other too. 

 

I am curious as to what happens next on a personal level. If your whole city is just ruined, you obviously loose some if not all friends and family members. How do you go on when everything is gone? 

WHAT DO EWE THINK?

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