People on the whole are pretty dismal at analyzing risk. In general people prioritize the "high impact low probability event" as something we must address with all available resources and consistently ignoring (or paying lip service) to the daily traumas of the high probability events.
Without going into a discussion of why, I am going to focus more on numbers. Basically, I think we are acting on this premise of fearing evil. The boogie man must be stopped theory. For example, there is a great deal of sensational press on "internet predators" when everyone knows the vast majority of sexual assaults are by family and friends. The ugly truth is so difficult to look at or confront that we ignore the systemic high probability event and reframe the threat to the low probability boogie man.
This then moves into the "Bad Actor Theory." Where there are systemic problems, we scapegoat the "Bad Actor," demonize them and delude ourselves to think we "Have the Greatest System in the World. We are America."
The ugly truth is that while modern medicine is and has made infinite contributions to humanity, the system itself is killing way too many of us.
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