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Originally Posted by Bingo
I can see what you guys are saying ... makes sense to me.
I think there is a tendency to attack the things in life that have more glamour, or that can come out of nowhere and kill people in eye popping fashion than the mundane trappings of day to day life.
However, there is a budget for most if not all of the things discussed, and perhaps these budgets aren't that far out of wack but not getting the media coverage of terrorism.
Hard to say.
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That I'll agree with too.
I like to use the analogy of the "Mad Cow Crisis" in Alberta after the first case. The entire world freaked out because of one wobbly cow. Did they ever stop to think how big a threat CJD is to humans? At the time I did a bit of research and I found from the 80s through about 20 years more people had died worldwide from carbon monoxide poisining due to lighting fires in their tents, than had died from
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease! Same thing is happening with terrorism these days everyone is far too hyper-aware.
Another good article which summed up my feelings fairly well: http://pintday.org/archive/20060815