Realized This Today

I don't get things some times, and other times I really worry about what is happening with people. This is a healthy amount of both.

First, we get this one - http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_AMTRAK_CRASH_LAWSUITS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

A few people died in an Amtrak crash, and it's costing the company millions to each of the families.

Then we get something like this - http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/02/25/gm-ignition-recall/5813539/

where 13 people have died, and nothing. No sob stories, no lawsuits worth millions upon millions of dollars. Even some of the other things, like the Boston Marathon bombing, which only killed three people. It injured quite a few, but only actually killed three people, gets serious coverage.

I just don't get it.

Something that causes only a few deaths, but is caused by something tragic, that gets a huge news cycle coverage.

Something that causes a lot of deaths, but is caused by something average, not even a small mention and no one cares about it. It just seems sort of weird. 600,000 die from heart disease and not a single word. 10 people die from a random situation, or from one freak that did something stupid, and bam, nothing but news press for the next month.

More people die every year from syphilis (49) than some of the most haneous crimes that get recorded by the news media, so we don't talk about it. Jump down to page 19 - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_02.pdf It's really odd to me that people worry more about the freak causes of death, rather than the things that are actually causing it at a massive level.

Whatever, I'm just trying to avoid grading papers, just wanted to rant about this for a few seconds.