I cannot decide if this is comforting or disturbing:

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• skibum609

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  4 years ago

  Progressives will be all for it because its a "ban" and if they can't tax; they ban.
• whodey

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  4 years ago

  Disturbing ... definitely disturbing.
• shadowcat

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  4 years ago

  You are also more likely to die in an automobile accident on the way to buy a lottery ticket than your are of winning the lottery. Doesn't stop people though.
• Meursault

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  4 years ago

  The article states your odds of contracting the virus are 1 in 4,300 on the plane. Since the majority of COVID infections are asymptomatic or mild, you are not taking a significant risk at all. Your odds of dying from a fall or choking on food are much much greater. A better approach would be to start using a wheelchair and only eat food that has been pureed and consumed with a straw.
• TheElmerFudd

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  4 years ago

  The way stats are quoted in the article is meaningless. There’s basically no significant information in it.
• Papi_Chulo

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  4 years ago

  Didn't read the article - but this is more to say that dying in a plane-crash is exceedingly rare given there are typically 100,000 flights per day under-normal-circumstances - you're probably more likely to die on the way to the airport and probably more likely to get physically attacked or get into an altercation w/ another passenger.
• Papi_Chulo

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  4 years ago

  ^ i.e. comparing anything to "dying in a plane-crash" is usually gonna lead to morphed conclusions
• NAAAASTY

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  4 years ago

  Think absolute vs relative risk.