‘Winter Is Going to Be Tough’

Hariet Salem writes on some of the half-million migrants fleeing unrest across Europe as winter looms:

Thrusting forward to the front of the crowd, Mahmoud Bas from Damascus in Syria called out for a doctor to help his young son who had fallen into a faint while waiting in the cold. “It’s so hot on the bus, then cold and rain out here, it’s making the children sick, everyone is just tired, exhausted, totally exhausted” he said, as volunteer medics splashed water on seven-year-old Mohammed’s face and gave him sugar. Others waiting in the wind-whipped field included an elderly woman in a wheelchair paralyzed from the waist down and a mother who sobbed as she sat in the mud cradling her seven year-old son who has a wasting disorder

Sigh.