What’s the fascination with body counts? The earthquake in Syria and Turkey is horrible, yet we stand by waiting, and maybe perversely hoping, that the death toll will go higher? Thousands of human lives snuffed out in the blink of an eye, in grotesque ways, and we await news of higher numbers like it’s some sort of notable achievement.
I guess it’s a frame of reference, or something. Another way of grasping the magnitude of the disaster besides 7.8.
And 7.5.
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