So much attention on this flu outbreak. While I too take precaution and worry about it I believe we need to give equal attention, if not more to car crashes. They are the number one cause of death for our children.
"...says Dr. Etienne Krug, the director of the Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention at WHO.Krug says that when it comes to the health and survival of children around the globe, there has been a preoccupation with infectious diseases and malnutrition. But he notes that a child who survives infancy faces a series of dangers as they get older.
"Once a child reaches age 9, injuries become the leading cause of death," Krug says. "We have a huge public health problem out there. ... It is like wiping out the entire child and adolescent population of Chicago every year."
The World Health Organization found that being on the road or in a car is dangerous for children anywhere in the world"
Car crashes kill 260,000 children a year and injure about 10 million.
Why do we continue to focus on that which we can not control? In my mind it is as if we have taken this fatalistic approach to deaths via car crashes, attributing them to gods on a mountain top. Yet, when we are sick or our children are sick we use hand sanitzer, we get shots, we avoid public spaces.
Kids are dying at the hands of adults daily. Many of these crashes being preventable. Yet prevention, merely by driving as safely as possible, is not being taken.
Again, why?