Hundreds of people have died in Florida

[muriel_volestrangler]

89. It's "being fair" because, in this sub-thread alone, we have had

"This thread is an embarrassment"
"DU is supposed to be the intelligent people who accept facts over conjecture, supposition and conspiracy theories"
"It is another to claim hundreds, media collusion and bodies are being fed to sharks and alligators to hide them."
"just making up your own numbe
"people who are in front of television all day - particularly cable news - begin to disassociate from what they're viewing and perceive it as just another drama coming out of the box"
" if part of your brain shuts off and it doesn't register as real - real people, real hardship, real pain, real death, and all of it requiring real empathy."
"start selectively cutting people off from TV and the Internet until they started acting like empathetic humans again"
"She and another poster claimed that hundreds of bodies were being hidden offshore"
"this poster and another made up claims after another hurricane before. Thank you for verifying it." (ed. note: this has not been "verified", it's just a repeat of a claim that a DUer made things up. No link to it yet)

So, that's "being unfair". "Being fair" is realising that a DUer is saying what a professional, totally involved in the disaster, said yesterday should not be answered with questioning their intelligence, empathy, or whether they are thinking at all.

'someone believing that the death toll will be in the hundreds is entirely different from claiming "hundreds of people have died in FL"' - well, no. It's not entirely different. It's the same claim; one is the prediction of someone working in the disaster, the other is a private individual who thinks they've seen nothing in the following day to contradict it. They are related, not "entirely different".