Giovanni, not to be overly mathy, but I'm not sure that those stats apply terribly well to New Yorkers.
The average person in NYC is much less likely to have a car than the average American, thus is less likely to have a car accident. Conversely, city dwelling pedestrians are prolly more likely to get run over. As far as terrorism is concerned, having been attacked multiple times, I think it would be fair to assume terrorist threats should be weighted heavier in NYC, no?
I don't doubt that the stats have some merit for Americans on the whole, but I also think that as a New Yorker, Balk's micro-meltdown and the police-caller can't be written off as undue frenzy. Your chances of dying by terrorism have to be higher in the city than out of it.
Of course, it was thinking like this a little too much and having a few moments like Balk's that made me decamp to Seattle a couple years ago. Still haven't totally shaken the paranoia, but its helped enormously.
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Giovanni, not to be overly mathy, but I'm not sure that those stats apply terribly well to New Yorkers.
The average person in NYC is much less likely to have a car than the average American, thus is less likely to have a car accident. Conversely, city dwelling pedestrians are prolly more likely to get run over. As far as terrorism is concerned, having been attacked multiple times, I think it would be fair to assume terrorist threats should be weighted heavier in NYC, no?
I don't doubt that the stats have some merit for Americans on the whole, but I also think that as a New Yorker, Balk's micro-meltdown and the police-caller can't be written off as undue frenzy. Your chances of dying by terrorism have to be higher in the city than out of it.
Of course, it was thinking like this a little too much and having a few moments like Balk's that made me decamp to Seattle a couple years ago. Still haven't totally shaken the paranoia, but its helped enormously.