The Social Contract and Alzheimer’s

Abstract

Don’t worry too much about terrorism. According to the National Safety Council, your odds of dying from a terrorist attack in the USA are 1 in 20 million. While the US government raises its defense budget by billions of dollars every year to protect you from this terrorist threat, or possibly a nuclear attack from the evil empire, consider the greater danger of dying from being struck by lightning (odds 1 in 5 million) or drowning in a bathtub (odds 1 in 800,000). Somehow, the US government in its mystifying reasoning has decided that infinitely more money should be budgeted to keep terrorists from harming you than to put that money to find a cure or prevention for any disease known to man that can and will more readily kill you.