No, I'm not talking about ISIS. The t***h is, the Paris attacks did not increase our risk from ISIS anymore than the risk level that existed the day BEFORE those attacks. It just scared us and made us more paranoid. I'm talking about the real, everyday threats we face, that could k**l us tomorrow.
New age parents resisting v******tion, is one of those threats. Rubella is making a comeback, as well as tuberculosis, polio, plague and others. Not all of these can be attributed to lack of v******tion, of course, but those not v******ted who get those diseases, will result in stupid Doctors, responding to stupid people and making stupid decisions - that will pressure the v***ses to mutate - resulting in NONE of us being immune anymore.
Automobiles are being manufactured with more and more distractions built in, with more and more "dummy proof" features ( auto stop, etc. ), that convince drivers they need not pay as much attention to what they're doing. Add in the distractions of web surfing while driving ( aided by the "features" in the cars themselves ) - and the automobile is the most deadly weapon in our arsenal. We stand a higher chance of dying from a distracted driver, than any other method of instant death.
People in New Jersey, are still being blown up by corroded and leaking gas pipes. There is little, to nothing, being done anywhere else, to detect and replace aging and crumbling infrastructures that pose a deadly hazard.
Commercial medicine is resulting in more and more mistakes in hospitals and clinics, resulting in death - or worse. Healthcare is BIG business, and the pressure to maximize profits, results in faster turn arounds, decreased staffing, increasing reliance on technology, with the resulting inattentiveness evident on a daily basis. The advent of "super bugs", that is, anti biotic resistant strains of common bacteria, just makes the threat that much more severe. Being admitted to a hospital, or a same day surgery clinic - is playing a literal game of Russian roulette with your life - or the lives of your loved ones.
This will be my only mention of violent crime - that I'm not including it here - because THAT threat is made obvious on a daily basis. No, there are plenty of other threats a round, that no one is making a big deal of - but should. Autism is now prevalent at 1 in 45 children and we now know that v*****es are NOT the cause. My guess is, the incredible amounts of industrial chemicals we've been exposed to over the years, has mutated our genes, resulting in the phenomenal increase in diseases such as autism. There is now some research to support my guess - that I made 25 years ago. There are over 50,000 chemicals we are exposed to on a daily basis, in our food, shampoos, toothpaste and everything else - and to date, only 2500 of them have been tested for the long term health effects on the human body. That's one hell of a risk we're taking without a whimper. We're essentially human guinea pigs here - and we smile and give over our hard earned cash, for another go at the clinical trial.
If we are going to be paranoid, let's be paranoid about things that are MUCH more likely to k**l us - than some knot head terrorist somewhere, living out a psychotic fantasy of world domination. Besides, we have enough of our own folks living out such psychotic fantasies. We've put most of them in the Congress of the United States.
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