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Wednesday, April 02, 2003Strategy is the device through which we control our fate despite adverse circumstances and conditions of uncertainty. Mass vaccination may be an imperfect policy with some risks - what policy isn't? - but it is a highly effective one, as it minimizes uncertainty and protects the public from one of the enemy's most potent weapons. The conundrum of the mass-vaccination skeptics is how to deal with risk, a subject that many Americans obsess over. They want information on the likelihood of a smallpox attack, and whether there is a "specific threat." Perfect information is demanded in order to make a perfect decision. And there lies the fatal flaw in their thinking. So true. We live in an imperfect world in which the complete elimination of risk is impossible. Yet, so many of us expect a world without risk that an entire class of lawyers has been able to make a very good living off that expectation, and it’s contributing to our paralysis when it comes to our self-defense: ..... Incredibly, lawyers frighten the bureaucrats more than bio-terrorists, lawsuits being a clear and present danger. We are more afraid of attorneys with files than of terrorists with vials. posted by Sydney on 4/02/2003 05:10:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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