What do you expect people to be concerned about? Cancer and heart disease, at some 500k to 1m deaths per year in this country?
Malaria, about five million a year?
SARS is a much safer thing to worry about.
There is a bizarre mindset that goes into risk calculation; almost a "safety in numbers" that is, on examination, somewhat irrational. A hundred people in an airplane crash will get a hundred times the attention given to ten thousand people dead in car accidents.
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Date: 2003-06-24 04:47 pm (UTC)Malaria, about five million a year?
SARS is a much safer thing to worry about.
There is a bizarre mindset that goes into risk calculation; almost a "safety in numbers" that is, on examination, somewhat irrational. A hundred people in an airplane crash will get a hundred times the attention given to ten thousand people dead in car accidents.
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