Earlier quoted context omitted.
People are dead and trapped under collapsed buildings in Kaikora and this is what upsets you?
If each of us bore all the suffering in the world at once, we'd never get anywhere. You've inserted yourself in a conversation occurring a tremendous distance from the events, and it's not like the comment was even making light of the situation.
I also have prior experience with disasters, I provided technical support to the engineers in the NZ Urban Search and Rescue teams in Christchurch, and saw the devastation first hand as I was setting up remote offices within the red-zone and rescuing computer equipment from buildings that were missing walls. I also saw people working frantically to extract survivors from collapsed buildings as we went by. I lived in the same house and often shared rooms with those engineers that were doing the rescuing work, and I saw the harried expressions on their faces every day.
So I reserve the right to ask people to respect the situation at hand.