AmidFuror

I voted for her, FWIW. Most people here had to hold their noses to stoop to doing that, though.

She wanted to send a message by voting third party and now has regrets.

I’m glad you felt empowered to write that.

Can I quote that when people say “bOtH sIDEs” is a straw man and no one actually argues it?

It’s because passengers (mostly) use transportation to get somewhere, not to waste time. The benefit is the distance traveled, and the risk is death. If I had the option to travel to a city 500 miles away by bus or by plane, I would want to fairly compare my chances of dying by one method vs the other

I wouldn’t want to find out if traveling 1.5 hours by bus or 1.5 hours by plane was riskier. That would be apples and oranges. The bus trip might only take me 30 miles, while the plane trip would take me 500.

Americans’ confidence in air travel falls after string of plane crashes, poll shows

There were no passenger deaths for the derailment in East Palestine.

An aside from the main point here, but I haven’t read much about the Toronto Pearson crash. Does it have anything to do with US air control or regulations (like plane maintenance) or is it just being lumped it?

Thank you! I tried to make the same point in the comments of another recent article. This isn’t a reason to avoid air travel (yet).

However, it is a reason to criticize the Trump administration, and they deserve blame for the excess deaths under their watch. We should be hammering home the point that cutting regulation and oversight will nilly comes with life and death consequences. If it isn’t lack of FAA funding that kills you, it could be cuts to NIH, leaving WHO, turning a blind eye to corruption (which compromises quality - ask Russia), etc.