Your Appendix Is More Deadly Than Al-Quada
September 26, 2006 - 5:07pm — bexOn September 11, Wired magazine posted an article about the relative risks of a terror attack. It was compiled with data over the past 11 years, which included the terrorist attacks in Oklaholma City.
They placed the results in the familiar color-coded terrorism danger meter... with the biggest dangers in red, and lowest dangers in green. The results? Terrorists are far less of a threat to your health than simply walking down the street:
| S E V E R E Driving off the road: 254,419 Falling: 146,542 Accidental poisoning: 140,327 |
| H I G H Dying from work: 59,730 Walking down the street: 52,000. Accidentally drowning: 38,302 |
| E L E V A T E D Killed by the flu: 19,415 Dying from a hernia: 16,742 |
| G U A R D E D Accidental firing of a gun: 8,536 Electrocution: 5,171 |
| L O W Being shot by law enforcement: 3,949 Terrorism: 3,147 Carbon monoxide in products: 1,554 |
Hmmm...
This is hot on the heels of a Cato Institute report about how politicians are making the war on terror worse by making people fear terrorists.
Since fear is the #1 weapon of terrorists, why are our own politicians trying so hard to make us fear terrorists?! They spend more time doing that than they spend protecting our borders and ports...
Why, oh why, do they do this? Because it gets them votes.
Grrr... looks like I'm back to my age old system of choosing politicians: never vote for an incumbent unless they are mind-blowingly awesome. If everybody adopted that system, we'd have to get some decent guys in there eventually...
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