5 rich people are trapped, and you have all manner of resources being deployed - the US Coast Guard + Navy, the UK Navy, Canadian navy/coast guard, research vessels and planes from all over - partially because these people have friends who are able to call up politicians and make noise in the right places.
hundreds of migrants die, and… tough luck.
Everyone deserves to live, so I’m glad the 5 men got the best rescue possible. But the same should have been done for the migrants.
To be fair there was no one tracking the migrant boat because they were crossing illegally. We knew the sub went missing basically as soon as it did rather than when people started spotting bodies. In situations where migrant boats are found before/in the midst of sinking help is sent (although after that it’s probably a trip to the detention centre.)
You mean, nobody except the Greek Coast Guard ship that was right next to it for a few hours? The one that attached a rope to it to tow it and potentially caused the ship to keel over?
Public sympathy doesn’t help, though.
5 rich people are trapped, and you have all manner of resources being deployed - the US Coast Guard + Navy, the UK Navy, Canadian navy/coast guard, research vessels and planes from all over - partially because these people have friends who are able to call up politicians and make noise in the right places.
hundreds of migrants die, and… tough luck.
Everyone deserves to live, so I’m glad the 5 men got the best rescue possible. But the same should have been done for the migrants.
To be fair there was no one tracking the migrant boat because they were crossing illegally. We knew the sub went missing basically as soon as it did rather than when people started spotting bodies. In situations where migrant boats are found before/in the midst of sinking help is sent (although after that it’s probably a trip to the detention centre.)
You mean, nobody except the Greek Coast Guard ship that was right next to it for a few hours? The one that attached a rope to it to tow it and potentially caused the ship to keel over?
So yeah, in that case nobody.
Guess I stand corrected then.