There is no reason to expect someone to have a rational approach to transportation-related fatality in any direction.
Drunk drivers will kill approximately 40 people today in America. Most people won't care about that or demand a congressional response or blame politicians, etc., so it is no more heartless to not care about a few dead people on a bridge either.
For almost all of us, there's nothing we can do to help anyone immediately effected by this incident. Would you have everyone else stand idle in mourning and respect? For how long?
I don't see a benefit to it either, but I still find it surprising when people react to tragedy with zero sympathy or emotion beyond self preservation. My surprise was all I was trying to indicate with my original comment.
The tentacles of this tragedy reach out far beyond Baltimore.
I saw someone speaking of how their shipment of body pillows was on that ship and they'd be liable for customer refunds now, possibly breaking their business.
People working at car dealerships all over the East Coast now have customers they're going to have to disappoint, one way or another.
Where's your sympathy for the people attempting to deal with the ongoing consequences of the crisis?
You're making unfounded assumptions about my sympathies. As I mentioned in other replies to this tree, my first comment was simply expressing my surprise to the top level comment. The top level comment said car prices will be affected so you'd better go shopping now. If it had expressed sympathy for people other than car consumers I might not have reacted that way.
Either way, I don't think loss of life is equivalent to having to disappoint your customers due to price inflation, so I reject your suggestion that my sympathy is misplaced.
If you were in the market for a car in the US east coast , act now before prices go up!