Safety Perception

[vi edit]

Living in the country is more dangerous than living in the city? Oh, deer!

Or those naughty exhibitionist cows having sex in the middle of the road.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/02/man-crashes-cows-humping-road-video_n_3535555.html

 

[waggy]

Thanks for posting that.

There's a lot of factors going on. Many rural people have access to hospitals, but it's usually via volunteer ambulance agencies or they only have access to low level emergency/cardiac services. If you live in the country and have a major heart attack you might be facing a 1+ hour drive or longer before you can get to a hospital with a cath lab or hope you can get a life flight out to you before you are in full arrest.

If you live in the city you might only be 15 minutes from a facility that can provide that. In situations where outcomes can change in the measurement of minutes that access is very significant.

So it's a double whammy of distance and less skilled emergency responders.

Not to knock the volunteer firefighters or EMT. they do take a ton of training.

they are good at what they do. but you are right on the times.

 

[waggy]

Al those cars in city traffic are struggling to reach 20 mph, and accidents are almost never fatal. You might not see a car as often out in the country, but when hits you going 70 it's going to do some real damage.

maybe not in car on car deaths. but I bet when its car on pedestrian the death rate is far higher then we do in the country.

 

[vi edit]

Not to knock the volunteer firefighters or EMT. they do take a ton of training. they are good at what they do. but you are right on the times.

It's not really a knock on them. Many of them are very good and frequently overlooked as true heroes to their communities. But there is a definite lack of tech and resources due to the volunteer/limited funding nature of the departments and the fact that most of these people have full time jobs that frequently are not related to emergency response.

 

[Sluggo]

People try, but you just can't. They're always on the prowl - even threshers can't handle a purely vegetarian diet.

Worse than zombies any day.