you think YOU got it bad?

as much as i love sky-is-falling alarmism, let's put a little perspective on our own plight for a second.

"MIANZHU, China (Reuters) - New aftershocks toppled 420,000 houses and injured dozens in southwest China on Tuesday, heaping destruction and fear on a region struggling to recover from the country's worst earthquake in decades."

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The official death toll from the 7.9 magnitude quake that struck Sichuan province on May 12 was raised on Tuesday to 67,183, but it was certain to rise as 20,790 were listed as missing. The quake injured nearly 362,000 people.

an entire nfl stadium's worth of people dead, the equivalent of the city of long beach injured, and enough houses to hold citizens from multiple rocky mountain states destroyed in an aftershock.

and we went to war over 3k dead civilians, have lost 4k+ more since, and we're treating it like it's the end of the fucking world? i'm a little confused.