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To: exDemMom
Would you get on board an airplane if 1.685% of all airplanes crash and kill all aboard?

First; you have to make it to the airport.

THEN you have to be a passenger.

We must calculate the rate of folks that actually GET covid; THEN the death rate FROM covid might make more sense.


The death rate of ABORTION is around 20-25% of ALL viable pregnancies!

Given that data, I'd guess that most fetuses would rather being flying in the belly of the plane than traveling in it's mother's womb!!

127 posted on 02/02/2021 5:49:10 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
First; you have to make it to the airport.

THEN you have to be a passenger.

I'm not sure of your point. What I am trying to illustrate is that if you catch Covid-19, you have a very real chance of dying from it (today's death rate is 1.697%). And you do have a very real chance of catching Covid-19. In the last 24 hours, 121,751 new cases of Covid-19 were diagnosed. The numbers of new cases have been recently dropping, but have been over 200k on most days since mid November.

If you knew that there was a 1.697% chance that every airplane will crash, would you still buy a ticket to travel by airplane?

There is a 1.697% overall chance of dying if you catch Covid-19 (your personal chance may vary; you can use the Covid-19 calculator to determine your personal risk). Knowing that, are you taking measures to avoid catching Covid-19? Do you keep your distance from people? Do you wear a mask properly?

If you would not get on board aircraft if you knew that 1.697% of them crash fatally, then why would you take chances with catching Covid-19, which is that deadly?

Your posts tell me that you do not take Covid-19 seriously. Therefore, your chance to catch it is higher than that of most people.

And my example of a high rate of fatal airplane crashes is completely hypothetical. I use that example because many people are scared to fly even though airplanes are the safest way to travel; the real chance of dying in a plane crash is one in 5.3 million. If you are scared to fly, but not concerned about catching Covid-19, your priorities are skewed.

129 posted on 02/04/2021 8:11:46 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org)
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