In terms of the “eight to ten” people, it was a bit hyperbolic, but it wasn’t so far from the truth as to be implausible, and the essential aspect is definitely

In terms of the “eight to ten” people, it was a bit hyperbolic, but it wasn’t so far from the truth as to be implausible, and the essential aspect is definitely real. I’ve directly experienced this many times during my time in Yerevan, where I have extended family. In the US, social and institutional priorities are such that nobody can time off for that kind of thing anyway, and everybody’s too spread out to be much within the blast radius or overall locus of an event like that. It’s just different in an intangible way that’s hard to describe—I tried my best in the article.