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In 2001, as many people died every 26 days on American roads
as died in the terrorist attacks of 9/11, it says.
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This is typical. But big car companies are profiting from death on
the highways, so we never see comparisons like the one in that link.
I haven't seen too many movies depict the auto industry as a
modern-day holocaust that spans the globe -- just an obscure
Godard film called
Le Weekend -- but you could make that case.
Another case in point -- the media hysteria about SARS about 2 or 3
years ago. Reporters were having fits because the disease had
killed 500 people worldwide in only a few weeks.
However, some countries lose 500 people every month due to
cholera -- which is completely curable. (Cholera is caused by
dirty drinking water. If you give people clean water, cholera
is cured.)
Who benefited, financially, from that cleverly-marketed
non-epidemic called SARS?