China Earthquake, Myanmar Typhoon....

[innerSpaceman]

The link I get is thus (and Katrina highlights it) ... in these far eastern countries, it seems like natural disasters kill tens of thousands ... while in the U.S., the worst kill "merely" thousands.


China is hardly a third-world country, but (because I can't bear to find out much about this yet on the heels of Burma), I assume this happened in a rural area. Unlike rural areas in the U.S., it seems people are jam packed in rural areas of China, Burma, India and elsewhere ... so that when natural disasters strike, tens of thousands (or more) are tragically affected.


What's worse is that the incompetence, corruption, and non-concern for affected peoples is so many times more magnified with governments in places like China and Burma when compared to even the incompetence, corruption and non-concern of the Bush Administration. With Katrina in the forefront of my thinking, these disasters in Asia boggle the mind on every level of horror.