On 6/23/2011 5:29 AM, Invisible wrote:
> Number of people killed by bird flu: 303 world-wide in total.
> Number of people killed by SARS: 8,273 world-wide in total.
> Number of people killed by cars: 43,000 *per year* in the USA alone.
>
> How about we all go get some frigging perspective here? :-P
Need to include an adjusted figure on the number of people that would be 
killed by something like the flu, if we where not so paranoid about it. 
That said, I imagine the number of people killed by various accidents 
is, if not as high as cars, still higher than bird flu and SARS. Sadly, 
a lot of that car stuff is a combination of not having a sane way to 
keep drunks out of them, a failure to stop people driving that shouldn't 
be (or even make sure they bloody know how in the first place, given how 
frakking easy it is to get a license some places...), and the fact that 
just about every idiot has one, and no maintenance is "mandated" on 
them, unlike say.. airplanes, which only get to be flown by specific 
qualified people, and are inspected often (if not always often enough).

In short, I doubt the numbers would be that much better if we still had 
horses and buggies, save that the horses are probably smart enough to 
avoid some of the stupid shit people do in cars. lol

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