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If anyone doubts this, look at cars:
Cars kill more human beings than murder in the US. Yet people live in terror of murder, reshape their lives around it, build a whole carceral industry around it — while blithely accepting the larger risk of death by car.
And that’s not accidental! It is a conscious business strategy! https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-76-the-modern-moloch/
If you wonder how people could throw up their hands at masks and vaccines, look at the history of seatbelts.
99% InvisibleThe Modern Moloch - 99% InvisibleOn the streets of early 20th-century America, nothing moved faster than 10 miles per hour. Responsible parents would tell their children, “Go outside and play in the streets,” all day. And then the automobile happened. And then automobiles began killing thousands of children, every year. Much of the public viewed the car as a death machine.