Comments on: The Swine Flu – Stop Panicking Already http://www.economicsjunkie.com/the-swine-flu-stop-panicking-already/ True Economics Applied in the Real World Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:24:09 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jerry http://www.economicsjunkie.com/the-swine-flu-stop-panicking-already/comment-page-1/#comment-716 Jerry Mon, 04 May 2009 00:53:57 +0000 http://www.economicsjunkie.com/?p=1891#comment-716 How are people so incapable of doing the math when it comes to risk? You were 55,000% (give or take) more likely to die in a car accident today than you were from Swine Flu. This is just like the populace's attitude toward spending money on terrorism! On a side note, I found a hysterical "Swine Flu" shirt: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270384815348 Stay FREE! Jerry How are people so incapable of doing the math when it comes to risk? You were 55,000% (give or take) more likely to die in a car accident today than you were from Swine Flu. This is just like the populace’s attitude toward spending money on terrorism!

On a side note, I found a hysterical “Swine Flu” shirt:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270384815348

Stay FREE!

Jerry

]]> By: C http://www.economicsjunkie.com/the-swine-flu-stop-panicking-already/comment-page-1/#comment-713 C Sun, 03 May 2009 23:49:52 +0000 http://www.economicsjunkie.com/?p=1891#comment-713 What an appropriate posting given the panic over this flu thing. I also saw the following quote today on http://enlightened-rogue.blogspot.com/2009/05/image-review-of-week.html : "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." H. L. Mencken What an appropriate posting given the panic over this flu thing. I also saw the following quote today on http://enlightened-rogue.blogspot.com/2009/05/image-review-of-week.html
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“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” H. L. Mencken

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