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Don’t worry too much about terrorism. According to the National Safety Council, your odds of dying from a terrorist attack in the USA are 1 in 20 million. While the US government raises its defense budget by billions of dollars every year to protect you from this terrorist threat, or possibly a nuclear attack from the evil empire, consider the greater danger of dying from being struck by lightning (odds 1 in 5 million) or drowning in a bathtub (odds 1 in 800,000). Somehow, the US government in its mystifying reasoning has decided that infinitely more money should be budgeted to keep terrorists from harming you than to put that money to find a cure or prevention for any disease known to man that can and will more readily kill you.
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de la Torre, J.C. (2016). The Social Contract and Alzheimer’s. In: Alzheimer’s Turning Point. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34057-9_8
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