A Nagasaki A Year

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100,000 Americans die of hospital-acquired infections every year.
http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2007/09/the-silent-kill.html

The "Islamofascists" can't kill nearly as many people as our lax hospital procedures and abuse of antibiotics. How much scrubbing and autoclaving could the Iraq Fiasco buy?

Alternate post title: "Evolution in Action"

Related, the low hanging fruit of flu prevention
http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2007/09/influenza-and-l.html
Hey, it's only ten 9/11s a year.

"There are very few problems can be solved solely by throwing buckets of money at them (although buckets of money are either helpful or necessary). Annual influenza is one of those problems than can be solved simply by investing more resources."

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As a standard nuanced liberal who has the luxury of not being shot at, "bad guys" as a generality makes me twitch. Not to say they don't exist... actually, I guess the real problem is the implication that the person using the term is a "good guy", and a standard nuanced liberal response is to suspect that people who talk about good guys and bad guys are in fact themselves bad guys.

Which is of course not a comment on Z's specific experience, about which I know hardly anything but would love to hear more.

Vetinari, paraphrased: "There are only bad people, but they are on different sides."