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RE: More on "Perception is reality"
I think some of the fear goes to what you have control over. In a car, you
have total control of your environment. Heck, you can't even feel the air
move if you have the windows rolled up. You are in your own universe with
your frame of reference. Of course the residents of Pripyat moved back,
because they could at least resume the lives they knew best. (Also, what
level of support did they get from their government regarding relocation,
and help.)
When you cannot control that environment, you have more apprehension and
fear, and not just from radiation. Look at a number of the environmental
issues. A big, bad company (or the government) has put chemicals in the air
or water. A high levels, animals get cancers. Why shouldn't you be
concerned? You do not know what you are being exposed to, and you know of
people in your family and neighborhood have gotten cancer.
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD 20715-2024
E-mail: jenday1@email.msn.com (H)
-----Original Message-----
From: RuthWeiner@AOL.COM [mailto:RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 9:29 AM
To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: More on "Perception is reality"
. . .
Now by any observation of the frequency of fatality and injury, driving in a
car carries a whole lot larger risk than being exposed to radon, living near
a nuke plant, being in the fallout of an accident involving spent fuel
transportation, or even a "dirty bomb." If just the thought of risk causes
panic, why don't people panic when they are driving? Why wasn't there
wholesale panic when the speed limit was raised? There are far better
statistics on the relation between speed and traffic deaths and injuries
than
between low-level radiation exposure, or radon exposure, and cancer.
. . .
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