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The Perfect Crime (Rebroadcast)

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Why We're So Close to a 4 000 Death a Year in the U.S

Fatalities overall and particularly pedestrian fatalities have fallen so much over really the last century or so If you were to tell me that 4 000 people in the u.s Were going to die when their TVs fall off the wall and kill them there would be outrage Non-stop, right? And yet here we have 4 000 a year and we kind of celebrate how much better we've gotten... I guess i'm just I just Don't quite get Why that cost is accepted so easily  is it just because we're used to it? Is it because it's better than it used to be? Do you have anything any thoughts on that?

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