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This is how I put it in my blog post: I think of the deaths as nature’s attempt to restore balance when confronted by something outside itself – something quite literally “supernatural”. Nature may abhor a vacuum but it also abhors something that violates its laws, like a dead person among the living. It tries to correct for this by killing someone, but that doesn’t fix the problem – the dead person is still in the living world, so it kills again, and again, and until the imbalance is corrected it won’t stop.
I have a suspicion that the ignoring only works 50% of the time because it actually works 0% of the time - it's something else stopping the phenomenon in those years. Or perhaps it never "activates" at all in those years.
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