Fickle Humanity

So much to say in reaction to both Mayanmar (Burma) cyclone and China's earthquake about how numbers bamboozle you stretching into regions you really can't comprehend and it all becomes meaningless.

Also the stunning difference between the speed on China's attempt at helping their own people and Burma's (would I be being cynical in suggesting the headlines about the speed may have something to do with the speed of Burma's government and the lack of any care and huge fear of Burma's government?).

And does thinking like that make it easier for me to handle such huge disasters, making me more distant from them and while deep down knowing we are but a life-form as prone as any to natural disasters, somehow I want to understand it in terms of our power over it, rather than admitting we are as fickle as the next?