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Maybe, just maybe, the death of friends and relatives is disturbing at a deeply fundamental level. Maybe, just maybe, this overwhelming reaction of loss is magnified to inhuman levels when these deaths are entering your deepest and oldest brain ALL DAY LONG. Maybe, just maybe, these reporters are empathizing with the locals at a deep level, reflecting accurately their situation, emotional as it inescapably is.

You're probably right, and we should be understanding, but why should this mean we can't talk about factual accuracy at the same time?

The content and leaning of this blog is so overwhelmingly and embarrassingly privileged and entitled and removed.

That doesn't mean they aren't sometimes true.

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Maybe, just maybe, the death of friends and relatives is disturbing at a deeply fundamental level. Maybe, just maybe, this overwhelming reaction of loss is magnified to inhuman levels when these deaths are entering your deepest and oldest brain ALL DAY LONG. Maybe, just maybe, these reporters are empathizing with the locals at a deep level, reflecting accurately their situation, emotional as it inescapably is.

The content and leaning of this blog is so overwhelmingly and embarrassingly privileged and entitled and removed.

Maybe just maybe, it is really difficult to accumulate, prepare, and distribute 3 million meals three times a day across a nation with no stable infrastructure of any kind.

Are you in Haiti? Are you working in a significant way to directly effect the effective feeding of 9 million meals a day? Please!

Randall

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