Here's what Cataluna got right:  "...time blunts priorities and erodes urgency ... the key is to act while the horror of what happened is still top-of-mind and not to let so much time pass that other things seem more urgent."

But guess what.  Other things really are more urgent.  And the passing of time lets us think rationally about our priorities instead of reacting in knee-jerk response to a terrible but extremely rare event.

You can buy medical tests to discover whether you have this or that extremely rare disease.  Each disease is horrible, but maybe preventable if you catch it in time.  Each test is outrageously expensive, and some are intrusive and painful.  Colonoscopy.  Breast biopsy.  Snake a tube with camera through a vein from groin into heart to look for clogged arteries.  Better get all the tests, right?  Just to be sure.  Forget about food for the kids, or going to college.  Because you never know what horror lurks within unless you look for it.