I guess it's always sad when people die....

[conuly]

but there is a reason North Sentinel Island is off-limits. “I have been so nice to them. Why are they so angry and so aggressive?” I don't know, maybe because you were trespassing? They've made it abundantly clear that they don't want visitors.

According to The Washington Post, he did at least get to holler at them (his words, not mine) that Jesus loves them, so I guess his trip wasn't a total waste. (He presumably yelled at them in English. He certainly could not have been speaking their language, because none of us knows what that sounds like.)

With any luck, he didn't get a chance to pass any novel pathogens to these people and the deaths will stop with him.

Edit: Friends are calling him a martyr. I'm not going to say what I think, out of respect for his grieving family, but he's not a damn martyr. He didn't even have a freaking plan.

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[author_by_night]

Who did he say this to, anyway? I'm confused about that. Was he somehow able to text from the island? Was it to the boaters who took him there? I don't know if it's that there's been conflicting info, or that I've had company all week so only really gotten snatches of the story. (Said company's also kept me blissfully detached from the news. It's... telling how nice that's been. Not that I don't think knowing what's going on is important, but some days I'd spend way too much time reading every article and comment section related to this.)

[conuly]

Apparently he went on and off the island a few times and kept a journal.