Matt Davies for March 27, 2024

That bridge went down fast.

form the RNC – “it was Hunters fault”

It’s not surprising that conspiracy theories sprang up immediately about this tragedy, but it shows the psychology behind them. Some people cannot live with the reality of random events resulting in tragedy or producing seemingly unnatural results. For them, it is a comfort to think that someone or some group is in control, even if they are malevolent in their intentions. This goes back to ancient times where the gods or witches were blamed. Trump capitalizing on this is remarkable in some ways. It came as a fringe benefit of telling people to embrace their hate. Before that, the popular conspiracies never gained as much political traction.

By incredible good luck (once you accept the bad luck of the ship out of control) and fast reactions, only folks working on the bridge were lost. And as such things go, very few.

The truth is, that we simply cannot AFFORD what it would cost to build invulnerable bridges. Or office buildings. Or homes. Or vehicles, airplanes, roads, railways… So we’ll do what we’ve always done: Build as well as feasible, create processes to ameliorate the danger and accept the occasional failure.

Coulda been a lot worse… think 4 PM on a weekday.

Was Davies struggling to meet his deadline? Most of us are probably unfamiliar with the word “gephyrophobia.”

And here’s some human psychology to chew on, as RWNJ web sites are claiming that it was “diversity” and “illegals” and “liberal governors”, among other weird conspiracy stories, to keep the stupid “base” amused and aggrieved.

Regardless, #45’s campaign are creaming themselves for the economic hit the disaster will cause, finding all kindsa ways to “Blame Biden”.

The ship lost power. Make the ships better.

Nothing created by Man is infallible, or eternal.

This is in terrible taste.

The ship was almost a hundred thousand tons, so almost 200 million lbs. The length is about 2/3 the height of the Empire State Building. Imagine a skyscraper crashing into the bridge.

hit us all in the national anthem

I’d sooner have faith in a bridge than the other drivers on a Saturday night,

It’s not a phobia, it’s a risk assessment deficiency. The traffic an any bridge is a far greater risk to one’s safety.

If our bridges only collapsed from gigantic behemoth things crashing into them, people might not be so afraid. It’s the ones which fall of their own accord that gets the worry muscles going

Following the tragic loss of life in the Key Bridge disaster, this is inappropriate.

In this case, at least to one of the bridge experts I saw on the news, this was not an infrastructure issue. He said that virtually any bridge would have collapsed from the powerful hit this one took. I wouldn’t know, but he said you simply can’t make an indestructible bridge within the confines of practicality.

Why is everyone trying to blame the bridge? It stood for years and would still stand if the ship, owned by Mitch’s sister-in-law, didn’t drive into it because it was not maintained properly. No back-up systems to prevent this? Shouldn’t the ship’s insurance company for the deaths and damages?? It’s not like the bridge threw its self in front of the ship. And why should taxpayers pay to replace a bridge that republican’s rich Chinese donors drove into? LOLO, I answered my own question.