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genxlib

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1. I was thinking about it just this morning

Reply to Blue_playwright (Original post)

Tue Sep 22, 2020, 08:58 AM

Sep 2020

I was on Search and Rescue in Haiti after the Earthquake in 2010. Accurate estimates are hard to come by but the average is about where we are right now.

I will never forget the carnage in that disaster. The smell of death. Bodies piled in the street. The utter devastation on families.

We are spared the sensory impact because the concentration of death is so distributed for us. It doesn't make it less tragic. Just easier to ignore.

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I was thinking about it just this morning genxlib Sep 2020 #1