• Jerkface@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I think we’re just kind of bad at evaluating risks of a relatively low order. In the US, E coli kills some 3000 people a year, and most of us have exposure to that risk. It might just be that people don’t see much of a difference between chances in the range of, say, 0.1% and 0.00001% of serious illness.