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> They found 84% of the 100 victims. The chilling and sad realization that it wasn't "They found 84 out of 100 victims"

• beerandt 5y ago
  They say 81 victims out of 97. You're overthinking it. ETA: 81, not 80. >he knew precisely where each victim would be located. >He personally found 20. His team, he said, recovered 81 by the time the last member departed Surfside on July 11. Even the freaking byline reads: >The Israeli Defense Forces’ National Rescue Unit recovered 81 of the 97 victims from the Champlain Towers South condo collapse site in Surfside.
  • mym1990 5y ago
    The quote is 'In all, the Israeli team found about 84% of the nearly 100 victims.' and the realization that they might mean that they found 84% of the body parts vs 84% of the people.
    • cromka 5y ago
      That would mean they would have to know the exact body mass of the 100 victims prior to their death and weighed each recovered piece of flesh. That's morbid and really just overthinking it.
      • mym1990 5y ago
        1. I was just pointing out thats where the OP mind could wander to, especially within the context of the story. 2. The irony is that you are the one overthinking by going as far as to suggest weighing flesh. One can recover a body from the waist up and consider it 50%.