A bunch of people die and this is your response?
Drunk drivers will kill approximately 40 people today in America. Most people won't care about that or demand a congressional response or blame politicians, etc., so it is no more heartless to not care about a few dead people on a bridge either.
For almost all of us, there's nothing we can do to help anyone immediately effected by this incident. Would you have everyone else stand idle in mourning and respect? For how long?
I don’t see any benefit to anybody to just ‘stop’ when a small number of those deaths happen in an exceptionally dramatic way.
The repercussions of this accident could very well kill more people indirectly than the actual workers who died.
I saw someone speaking of how their shipment of body pillows was on that ship and they'd be liable for customer refunds now, possibly breaking their business.
People working at car dealerships all over the East Coast now have customers they're going to have to disappoint, one way or another.
Where's your sympathy for the people attempting to deal with the ongoing consequences of the crisis?
Either way, I don't think loss of life is equivalent to having to disappoint your customers due to price inflation, so I reject your suggestion that my sympathy is misplaced.