This post is not even on the first four pages despite ~20 upvotes within an hour, from experience this takes quite a few flags
The similarities are basically coincidence - the rather confected connection doesn't tell you much about either event and the most recent one is in active discussion on the front page already.
If the argument is 'we ought to have a thread dunking on this person', I don't think you'll have to wait long, there will surely be several, as this story develops.
It's an example of a "black swan" or Bertrand Russell's chicken - the same process has worked many times, leading people to make the false conclusion that the risk has become neglible. There's a successful trial period in which the beancounters reduce headcount with no negative consequences. So the trial becomes permanent, people become less careful. And then boom.
They miss that a 1 in 10000 occurence is going to happen eventually, and that "unnecessary expense" which was previously there to mitigate it has now been removed.