A New Scare...

Why are we so scared about absolutely everything here in the US?
It's like we have to find something that scares the crap out of us all the time.

This morning it's baby cribs.

All news stations report a huge recall on all fold down cribs because there has been 4 deaths reported. The side has somehow detached and babies have fallen in between the bed and the rails and suffocated.

The experts are on the news tell all parents with very concerned voices not put their babies in the cribs no more. Toss the crib out and buy a new one.

How many babies are born in the US every year? more than 4 million. And lets say a baby stay in it's crib on average about 2 and a half years. That means that on any given day 10 million babies and toddlers sleep in a crib. Among them I think at least half sleep in cribs with fold down sides so out of 5 million babies 4 have died?

I'm not saying the 4 deaths are not each and and every one of them a tragedy, but in comparison are they worth a total uproar and tumult to upset the oh, so easy to scare population? Isn't it enough with the swine flu, terror threats and diarrhea causing tomatoes, spinach or broccoli ?

Car Crash Stats: There were nearly 6,420,000 auto accidents in the United States in 2005. The financial cost of these crashes is more than 230 Billion dollars. 2.9 million people were injured and 42,636 people killed. About 115 people die every day in vehicle crashes in the United States -- one death every 13 minutes.

Health Care Insurance Stats: Nearly 45,000 people die in the United States each year -- one every 12 minutes -- in large part because they lack health insurance and can not get good care.

With that in mind, can you understand why the sofas in the newsrooms are lined up with experts telling you not to eat broccoli, or to toss the crib you've had your baby in for the last year?

And then, understand why you've never heard experts warning you to take your baby on a car ride? Or warn you to never ever put your teenager in a car (after all they make up half the deaths in traffic every day -- one every 26 minute --)? Why don't you hear a outcry from the experts to ASAP get health insurance for every American?

I wonder why?