The Partisan Divide on Issues

[pbrower2a]

(10-25-2021, 11:07 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(10-24-2021, 08:43 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Would you take a trip by car if you thought that you had a 1% chance of dying during the journey? In 50 trips you would have about a 40% of dying. That is a very poor survival rate. Naval aviators have about a 23% chance of dying in a 15-year career as such even without combat. Combat is even more dangerous, adding other risks that I need not express.

Speaking of journeys, here is one place that I am sure that you would avoid. It is one of the worst slums in America, the Kensington "community" in Philadelphia. Watch at your own risk. It looks like a "Needle Park". It is unlikely that the people "shooting up" are diabetics using insulin.






Would you take risks on a heroin or meth habit? I don't know which is more dangerous -- IV drug use or COVID-19. You just showed me an estimate of 750,000 deaths, and -- yes, I have a calculator available. The death rate is about 1.6%. I know, of course, that such is a low rate in contrast to the death rates for cancer, strokes, and heart attacks, but those take time to develop. COVID-19 takes about a month to go from infection to death. Yes, you are taking a greater risk of death from lung cancer alone with every puff of a cigarette, but it takes a huge number of puffs from coffin nails to increase one's death rate from lung cancer by 1.6%. That is not a trivialization of smoking as a health risk; it is a bad habit with no obvious mitigating factors.

Stupid risks are for fools.

I take a risk of being killed in a car accident or dying from something else every day of the week dude. Americans take risks with their lives all the time.

This is now a bicycle trail and not an automobile route. It has been bypassed along a safer highway.



Yes, it used to be a highway in Bolivia. Truckers needed to say their prayers before they drove this road, as they wouldn't have time to do so while driving it.



I'd say that this is the sort of highway (known locally as el Camion de la Muerte) that one has about as much danger of dying just because of the road. It is now closed to motor vehicles. If you drove this road you needed a guardian angel but instead were more likely to meet the Angel of Death.



Red is the cycle trail, and pale green marks the route for motor vehicles.