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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on November 07, 2011, 01:29:46 pm ---When I was a kid, I was terrified that someone was going to break into my parents' house and attack me. Never mind that that had never, ever happened (and hasn't since) in the middle-class suburb where I lived, that the odds against it were astronomical. Every night, I lay there watching the door of my room, waiting in terror for an intruder to appear.
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Sounds to me like very probably, as a very small child, you were abducted from your bed in the middle of the night by aliens, who gave you a medical exam and then returned you. The memory was buried, but you still had the conscious terror that something would come back and get you in the night. 8)
Monika:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on November 07, 2011, 11:05:59 am ---
Back to air safety, I think the vast majority of plane deaths involve little private planes. A couple of years ago, a family my sons knew from school lost four members -- father and three sons -- flying a small plane with the father piloting.
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OT, but this was a strange coincidence. I was reading about the Bucklin family just the other day. Very tragic.
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on November 07, 2011, 11:57:09 am ---
Statistics about car crashs vs. plane crashs don't make much difference. Fear isn't always rational (or even mostly not retional). I don't care how few planes crash, I'm just afraid the one I'm sitting in could be the exception of the rule (when it gets shaky, for me it's the turbulances that get me, otherwise I'm doing okay).
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Exactly. It's like the lotto. No matter how ridiculous the odds, SOMEone does get the hit. So it doesn't matter how many planes have flown safely. The fact that so many have flown safely without a major crash statistically means a bad crash is overdue.
It's like getting insurance and they ask you if you want flood insurance for the once in 100 years flood. You say no, because the odds are ridiculous. However, sometimes, sadly for you, that 1 in 100 years flood just happens to occur tomorrow, but won't happen again for 99 years.
delalluvia:
Grrrrrrrrrr
>:( >:( >:( >:(
I am 10 days away from my long delayed, Italian vacation...I'm thrilled and excited and...in the last 4 days, three people who sit close to me at work or with whom I interact on a daily basis have come down with flu-like maladies.
Two are home sick today.
I can't get sick, I can't get sick, I can't get sick.
I've had a flu shot, but so did one of the people who is sick with whom I interact daily.
Incubation periods are usually 7-10 days, which means I might break with this strange cold/flu a few days before I leave.
Up until now, NO ONE had been sick around me - I almost made a clean getaway...
I'm downing zinc and Vit C, trying to stay positive and happy, hoping to shore up my immune system, doctors have written me preemptive antibiotics, but they do nothing for a virus.
I can't get sick, I can't get sick, I can't get sick, I can't get sick.
>:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on March 21, 2012, 03:06:57 pm ---Doctors have written me preemptive antibiotics, but they do nothing for a virus.
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What about antivirals?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_treatment
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