Safer?

 

On the Sunday shows, I heard different talking heads talk about whether America is safer after the Afghanistan War. On FB and letters to the editor, some people write that they fear letting Afghans in is letting terrorists in.

Wake up Americans.

You are not safe, but the danger from terrorists is minuscule compared to dangers all around you. Here's just a few:

Wildfires https://www.fireweatheravalanche.org/fire/ Increased wildfires are linked to climate change.

Smoke from wildfires https://phys.org/news/2021-08-wildfire-affect-brain-sperm-lungs.html

Hurricanes https://www.c2es.org/content/hurricanes-and-climate-change/

Drinking water https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/09/drinking-unsafe-water-contaminants-solutions/

Oil spills water https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/ocean-coasts/oil-spills

Oil spills pipelines https://www.foreffectivegov.org/blog/map-displays-five-years-oil-pipeline-spills

Bankruptcy because of medical bills https://www.thebalance.com/medical-bankruptcy-statistics-4154729

Job loss because of jobs being shipped overseas, pandemic https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/12/us-corporations-sending-jobs-abroad-offshoring-pandemic

Bad roads  https://www.thetravel.com/us-roads-and-highways-to-avoid/

Bad bridges https://infrastructurereportcard.org/cat-item/bridges/

Being slaughtered in a mass shooting in a theater, church, school, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2020

Unhealthy chemicals in food https://www.psr.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/toxic-chemicals-in-our-food-system.pdf

E coli outbreak  

Police confiscation of your property https://priceonomics.com/how-police-officers-seize-cash-from-innocent/

Teeth In 2018, nearly half of Americans polled by NORC said they went without a routine cleaning or dental checkup that year, and 39% said they avoided getting treatment for a dental problem https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/08/27/dental-insurance-lobbyists-quietly-target-dem.ocrats-medicare-expansion-plans