Summer is here and so is pool season.
There has been a video lately that has gone viral talking about how when someone drowns it is silent, not loud like we see in the movies.
An important piece and reminder to us all.
I have a pool.
I enjoy it and fear it. We use a lot of precautions so I by no means am undermining the importance of drowning prevention.
Behind car crashes drowning is the second unintentional way to die for children.
That is significant.
According to the site Child Death Review: In selected causes of death, ages 0-19, per 100,000 in 2007 for unintentional deaths:
6,683 children died in car crashes with a mortality rate of 8.1.
1,056 children died in drownings with a mortality rate of 1.3.
These are categorized under unintentional injury as firearms are logged under homicide. Unintentional death from firearms were 138 mortality rate 0.2.
I've just had a lovely day, well pretty lovely the weekends are a "bit" challenging with 3 young kids, but overall lovely day. I watched my kids like a hawk while they swam and even thought of that viral piece going around about the silent killer, drowning.
I also thought about why aren't we advocating to change the way we drive so that we could save so many lives? Why isn't some politician or entertainer making a racket about this?
All I can do is drive as safely as I can and you too. Until someone starts realizing the fact that this is not making significant waves is crazy.
Car crashes are not a silent killer. They are loud and yet the silence lies in our acceptance of the high number of crashes and or the unwillingness to significantly change our ways.