| | Since 1985, at least 20 children and young adults in the United States have died in beach or backyard sand submersions.
That's not even 1 per year. With cardiovascular disease causing 800,000 deaths per year (and cancer is over 500,000 now), it's a subject that is a million times more important than this subject is. You'd think they'd want to write more articles on preventing cardiovascular disease, rather than to print this relatively unimportant article. Wouldn't you?
"People have no conception of how dangerous this is," she said in an interview this week. And they shouldn't (not if they rationally proportion their mental energies and capacities). Instead of having a "conception of how dangerous this is", they should be concerned about things that are a million times more important.
If someone were to rebut me with the fact that it's younger folks who die in the sand, then I'll simply retreat to my fall-back position (cancer) which occurs across all age groups -- and I've STILL got something that is over half a million times more important than this subject. And if someone were to rebut that, I've still got at least half a dozen causes of death (geared more toward the young) that are at least 10,000 times more important than this is.
The popular press amazes me sometimes (actually, almost all the time).
Ed
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