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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
It's not like I'm saying we shouldn't do anything that involves risk. That's just dumb. People still smoking is a crazy comparison. When the Escooter lobby is worth several hundred billion dollars we can talk about that. We mitigate risk all the time. Escooters at this point are very risky and very costly to a publicly funded health system. We can wait around and do what other places do...limit the number of them, limit the hours they can be ridden, etc.
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Neither of the bolded statements are statistically true. They're no more risky than cycling, and much less costly than cycling, driving, falling, playing sports, working out, even
walking in terms of total burden on our health care system.
I'm fine with mitigating risk, but you and a few others are treating e-scooters like a boogeyman of danger. The evidence does not support your position, and the evidence you're using to try and do that is being done so without considering any context at all.
140ish visits to the emergency room... sounds really scary! Except... it's not... over 500 people are hospitalized every year from slipping on ice while they're walking. Not just emergency room visits...
hospitalized. Think about that.