easily distracted again
Jun. 24th, 2014 10:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dwNear the end of "No Place to Hide," Glenn Greenwald's book about the release of the NSA etc leaks by Edward Snowden, he quotes John Mueller "The number of people worldwide who are killed by Muslim-type terrorists, Al Qaeda wannabes, is maybe a few hundred outside of war zones. It's basically the number of people who die drowning in the bathtub each year."
Why should that many people die in bathtubs? I presume many of them are small children left unattended, but are the rest people who take a bath to relax and then fall asleep? The CDC seems to say that most non-kid bathtub drownings are caused by the bather having a seizure.
http://www.cdc.gov/HomeandRecreationalSafety/Water-Safety/waterinjuries-factsheet.html
Why should that many people die in bathtubs? I presume many of them are small children left unattended, but are the rest people who take a bath to relax and then fall asleep? The CDC seems to say that most non-kid bathtub drownings are caused by the bather having a seizure.
http://www.cdc.gov/HomeandRecreationalSafety/Water-Safety/waterinjuries-factsheet.html
