I have no problem with most of what Dominick wrote, but one statement
(below) triggered a response:
Dominick wrote:
"As far as risk perception, I find that residents of my county are very
intolerent of risk when it comes to mosquito-borne disease. "
In a way that is the crux of my argument (or one of the cruces). Why
were many people intolerant of risk? because they had been led to
believe that this was the worst scourge to befall them. Because it
wasn't put in perspective. Because it was depicted as an alien invader?
from Africa? Because all they heard on television and saw in the papers
was "Deadly West Nile".
It's a classic example of numerator public health. If you ignore the
denominator(s) it's possible to make anything seem deadly.
Mike Gochfeld
Received on Tue Jan 15 11:44:00 2002
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