God I love Thomas Sowell.
"Since there were thousands of airline flights cancelled in the name of safety, this means that there were at least tens of thousands of passengers unable to take the flights they had booked.
Some of those passengers drove cars to reach the destinations to which they had originally planned to fly. Since automobile fatality rates per mile have long been several times as high as airline fatality rates per mile, this means that the dangers to life and limb have not been reduced by this political grandstanding.
Instead people have been exposed to greater dangers -- in the name of safety! "
Obviously it's the salience of the deaths that matters to politicians, not the danger itself.
Full post here.
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