by I was debating with the antivaxers on twitter and I asked them whether they ever travel in a vehicle because the odds of having a serious injury from a road accident is way much higher than the insignificant risk of getting an injury from a vaccine? So I looked up some statistics and when I saw them, I thought, WTF, I'm never travelling in a vehicle again! I also decided never to look up the odds of dying in a cycling accident. Okay, I wasn't really intending of never traveling in a vehicle again, but I was a bit concerned just the same. Perhaps I'm not getting something, but lifetime risk of dying in a vehicle is one in 240 in the UK and one in 110 in the US, but risk gets much worse if you drive a car everyday, or do a lot of driving. BTW, the lifetime risk of dying by suicide is 1 in
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I was debating with the antivaxers on twitter and I asked them whether they ever travel in a vehicle because the odds of having a serious injury from a road accident is way much higher than the insignificant risk of getting an injury from a vaccine?
So I looked up some statistics and when I saw them, I thought, WTF, I'm never travelling in a vehicle again! I also decided never to look up the odds of dying in a cycling accident. Okay, I wasn't really intending of never traveling in a vehicle again, but I was a bit concerned just the same. Perhaps I'm not getting something, but lifetime risk of dying in a vehicle is one in 240 in the UK and one in 110 in the US, but risk gets much worse if you drive a car everyday, or do a lot of driving.
BTW, the lifetime risk of dying by suicide is 1 in 88 - WTF! That is a lot of suffering, and much of that may be due to chronic pain.
Anti-Vaxxer tweet.
Risk of death and transportation
The lifetime risk of dying in a transport accident is remarkably high - with most of the risk coming from road traffic accidents. While the risk of dying in a road accident in any year in the UK approaches 1 in 20,000, the lifetime risk is 1 in 240.
Bandolier
http://www.bandolier.org.uk/booth/Risk/trasnsportpop.html
What are the odds? Learn your odds of dying from different causes in the U.S. (2019 data)