I dont see anything wrong with the comment to be honest, Without going off topic for to long. Thousands of people die everyday from random occurrences and we can not mourn or pretend to care for them all. They had been proclaiming this as the most scariest dangerous killer storm that would cause destruction and total chaos. It did no such thing. It was over hyped beyond belief, Scaremongering on a slow news week.
The only way I can link this useless little convo to Aviation is to say they do the same thing anytime a plane crashes. Over hype, worry everyone and tend to get it all wrong.
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