How many lives a year could be saved if everyone wore their seat belt, or they required at least the driver to be buckled in before the car would start?
How many lives could be saved if everyone taught their child to swim..or they made that a requirement like they do vaccines for the first grade? Wonder how many children are killed a year by drownings compared to tetnus or Deptheria which are required.
How many lives could be saved if everyone had and used a home blood pressure monitor or blood glucose meter and was educated about the risk of those numbers.
How many lives could be saved if they put alcohol interlocks on all automobiles, or at least PBTs and people refused to ride with people that had been drinking alcohol...not just people that appeared to be intoxicated.
These are just a few ideas that come to mind quickly. It might be fun to have a contest to decide how to save the most lives and publish those ideas instead of the hype for the drug and vaccine companies, that is probably not going to have much impact in real numbers, at least in the US.
Rayof MO9:59PM May 18, 2012
I heard that most people that die from the flu in the United States..had a current flu shot. Is this true?
I also heard that less than a dozen people a year that die of tetnus and deptheria in the United States. Is this true?
If so..why are you stressing these low return options verse some of the other others that could save thousands?
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