Tragedy

[bcholmes]

If I controlled the universe, tragedy would be measured differently. Public response to Nelia Laroza's death, for example, would far exceed public reaction to Holly Jones' death.

Entire communities would mobilize around efforts to ensure that health care is a safe profession. The government would be pressured to change law, change budgets, (change premiers ferchrissakes), to make hospitals better. People would demand inquiries into the history of health care underfunding.

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[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Holly Jones was a little girl who was molested and murdered. As always happens in such cases, the public are screaming for changes in how the law treats people convicted of crimes against children.

Nelia Laroza was a nurse who recently died of SARS, the only person in the health care profession to do so.