Meaningless Rants

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Yet another disaster in China. After Myanmar’s cyclone, China got an earthquake that kills an estimated 15,000 so far. And then I started to see headlines like these: "Earth’s Anger!" "Nature’s Wrath!"

Well, actually, nature by itself probably doesn’t kill much in an earthquake. Think about it: the only way nature really kills in an earthquake is when a tree becomes uprooted and hits someone, or if someone’s standing on a cliff and he fell, or there’s a landslide burying people, or someone fall into a newly form chasm, or someone got shooked and fell on the river and drown. Actually, most of the casualties from an earthquake is from man-made buildings/architectures/roads/bridges that collapses and hit the person below it or mangled the person above it. I noticed this as I watched the news: people buried under rubbles from buildings, and yet another people buried under rubbles from buildings, and yet another people buried under rubbles from buildings, and yet…

It’s different from a cyclone/storm, where the tidal surge can drag people and drown people. Now THAT kills. But even so, there are probably many casualties from people dragged and hitting buildings, or plans with nails, and so on. It’s like the tsunami in Aceh. Maybe you thought, "hey, why don’t people just stay afloatride the wave until the farthest reach of the wave?" Well, not easy if you got a car slamming you from behind, and against a mangled bunch of planks and wires and what have you.

Just another meaningless rant. Myanmar’s government is a bitch.