Horrific display.
RIP to all those who were lost.
This is the product of every single governmental failure here in the United States. From decades of cutbacks to infrastructure spending on the local, city, county, state, and federal level - to the doomed public-private partnerships that run all infrastructure in the nation - to housing being treated as a commodity instead of as a human right. This won't be the last of these major infrastructure disasters.
My fear, which will likely be realized soon - is that these people's deaths won't matter in the long run. Just like mass shootings, mass unemployment, and carceral violence - it's just going to be another daily aspect of American life, and won't even make the headlines for more than a day or two.
