what? and... what?
They were previously saying that twelve miners had survived the cave-in.
Well, someone, somewhere, flipped the numbers. Twelve miners are dead. One is alive, in critical condition.
I understand people are highly agitated in such situations, and I can see how, like in Telephone, information got altered. But how did the mining company not clear that up for three hours? Even if they didn't know one way or another, why didn't they say that? "Folks, we don't know for sure how many survived, we only know they've been found." If the survival number going around had been two or three, something close to the reality, I'd believe the company honestly didn't know. But they had to know almost immediately that "twelve died" does not equal "twelve survived." They knew, and they let the families think their loved ones were alive... not only might be, the hope they'd held out before, but were alive.
Americablog is predicting a lawsuit, but I'm just trying to imagine the mindfuck these families went through last night. And wondering what possibly could have been going through mine officials' heads. "Oh, they'll be less devastated if we tell them in a couple hours... we wouldn't want to break up the celebrations..."
Well, someone, somewhere, flipped the numbers. Twelve miners are dead. One is alive, in critical condition.
I understand people are highly agitated in such situations, and I can see how, like in Telephone, information got altered. But how did the mining company not clear that up for three hours? Even if they didn't know one way or another, why didn't they say that? "Folks, we don't know for sure how many survived, we only know they've been found." If the survival number going around had been two or three, something close to the reality, I'd believe the company honestly didn't know. But they had to know almost immediately that "twelve died" does not equal "twelve survived." They knew, and they let the families think their loved ones were alive... not only might be, the hope they'd held out before, but were alive.
Americablog is predicting a lawsuit, but I'm just trying to imagine the mindfuck these families went through last night. And wondering what possibly could have been going through mine officials' heads. "Oh, they'll be less devastated if we tell them in a couple hours... we wouldn't want to break up the celebrations..."