@Lan1
Thank you for posting your original words of concern before this appeared in the mainstream, and for your affirmations of safety for all in this community. This must have been horrific for you and your daughter and everyone in the community in addition to those directly involved. This is a huge tragedy that will definitely have long term effects.
That you reached out in concern for all of us speaks to your compassion and ability to process great intensity and still maintain your humanity. I additionally appreciate your tactful address regarding the resulting "opinion" and "respectful" aspects of communication in this forum. We are all different in our communication styles as we share the common bond of being conscientious airbnb hosts.
To me, this forum is one of the best facets of airbnb. Many of the issues posted here are highly charged, but none I've seen as evocative as this one, or as tragic.
My heart goes out to the victims, their families, the host, you and your family, the other neighbors, and the overall hosting/lodging community locally and globally. This could have happened to any of us, and this incident is a HUGE wake-up call. No system is 100% effective, but this is one that came with numerous, strongly voiced concerns from this host community, and although we can never know for sure, I'll bet many of us are wondering if this could have been avoided had our long term concerns been addressed, and I truly hope this will lead to significant change around that.
It's very important that we take a deep breath and consider that we need to band together and stand for what this hosting community has been pointing out in our feedback and concerns for YEARS. We cannot undo this tragedy, but I strongly believe that together we can set precedent, create the changes that have been needed for quite some time, and implement measures that will prevent this from happening again.