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comment by MattholomewCup
MattholomewCup  ·  4381 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hurricane Sandy: 80 Days Later

I can't believe this is still such a ruin, and yet I've heard no one speak of it, and I don't know of any major government effort to do something as basic as get people back into their homes. I guess we've moved on to guns though, because we as a country can't seem to manage more than one issue at a time.





lelandbatey  ·  4381 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's a similar phenomena compared to what happened after hurricane Katrina, or the BP oil spill, or the Haiti earthquake, or the tsunami in Japan, or the earthquake in Indonesia, etc.

I really wish that people weren't as quick to move on, but I do it as well. It seems so far away and irrelevant to me, even though it's terrible and deserves action.

I don't have the answer to human apathy, though I wish I did.