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Re:Canada: Hundreds of unmarked graves found at residential ... by beerandt on Thursday June 24, 2021 @10:00PM (#27626362)
It's the sudden urgency and staged-shock that's the problem. Framing it as the most important story for you to read today, even though it's been known and newsworthy for years, and 50% of the text was copied from the story that ran on page 16F 10 years ago.

Doing a few 10'x10' scans with GPR (which should never be trusted without ground truthing confirmation), then extrapolating it across a football field, and getting numbers that roughly agree with previous estimates isn't a breaking news update.

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Re:Canada: Hundreds of unmarked graves found at residential ... by lostlogin on Friday June 25, 2021 @12:57AM (#27627283)
> It's the sudden urgency and staged-shock that's the problem.

That’s a problem, sure. But I find the body count rather more alarming.

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Re:Canada: Hundreds of unmarked graves found at residential ... by beerandt on Friday June 25, 2021 @04:14AM (#27628297)
That's my point- there's no reason to wake up today and be shocked that TB used to kill a lot of people, including kids.

If I found a plantation house with 1000's of bodies buried in the yard, and forensic evidence shows most died a violent death, in a pattern of killings that repeated itself for decades...

would you be alarmed at the body count at Arlington?

Then why are you alarmed at the body count of a overgrown cemetery "found" where it was expected to be found, and containing roughly the same number of graves expected?

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Re:Canada: Hundreds of unmarked graves found at residential ... by lostlogin on Friday June 25, 2021 @01:53PM (#27634109)
> would you be alarmed at the body count at Arlington?

Alarmed isn’t quite the right word. But it’s likely close.

> Then why are you alarmed at the body count of a overgrown cemetery "found" where it was expected to be found, and containing roughly the same number of graves expected?

I had no idea this was a thing or that any schooling system regularly buried children.

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