{"id":10051,"date":"2006-09-18T09:50:55","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T16:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/09\/18\/alert-alert-2.html"},"modified":"2006-09-18T09:50:55","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T16:50:55","slug":"alert_alert_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/09\/18\/alert_alert_2.html","title":{"rendered":"Alert!  Alert!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"alertalert.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/alertalert.gif\" width=\"200\" height=\"262\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a measure (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/dhspublic\/display?theme=29\">Homeland Security-style<\/a>) of perspective on relative threats to public health.  It&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/technology\/0,71743-0.html?tw=wn_index_29\">list of dangers to the American public<\/a> based on deaths 1995-2005.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, one datum missing from the chart is how many more deaths there would be due to terrorist attacks if we weren&#8217;t all riled up in fear about terrorist attacks.  Answer:  we don&#8217;t know, and the government (to the extent it could guess) isn&#8217;t telling, and to the extent it tells, we tend not to believe.<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/09\/17\/flu_hernia_or_police.html\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a measure (Homeland Security-style) of perspective on relative threats to public health. It&#8217;s a list of dangers to the American public based on deaths 1995-2005. 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