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From: John Robertson <jrr@flippers.com>
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Subject: Re: lithium explosion
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:20:10 -0700
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On 2024/04/12 10:26 a.m., bitrex wrote:
> On 4/12/2024 1:07 PM, John Robertson wrote:
>> On 2024/04/12 9:52 a.m., john larkin wrote:
>>> On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 12:22:00 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 4/12/2024 10:04 AM, Bill Sloman wrote:
>>>>> On 12/04/2024 9:16 pm, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>>>> On 2024-04-12 07:19, Bill Sloman wrote:
>>>>>>> On 9/04/2024 3:03 am, Jeroen Belleman wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 4/8/24 18:35, John Larkin wrote:
>>>>>>>>> https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-68744317
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It doesn't look like that one was charging.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Lithium battery fires are a big deal in New York too.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> San Fancisco is swarming with illegal, unlicensed electric 
>>>>>>>>> scooters,
>>>>>>>>> surfboards, wheelie things, bikes, and motorcycles.
>>
>> As are most cities with access to Amazon/eBay...(no regulations on 
>> what people can sell on these platforms)
>>
>> ...
>>>> And fretting about the hazards of exploding batteries with 300 million
>>>> guns floating around is pretty schizophrenic. Compared to being injured
>>>> by an exploding bike (or shot by a stranger for that matter) your
>>>> chances of being shot by a police officer are at least the same, or 
>>>> higher.
>>>
>>> About 1300 people were killed by police in the US last year, out of a
>>> population of 333 million, about 4 PPM. Cops rarely shoot polite
>>> law-abiding citizens; don't threaten people, especially cops, with
>>> guns or knives.
>>
>> Here in Canada the average number of people killed by police annually 
>> is just under 40 per year since 2011. Out of a population of roughly 
>> 40,000,000 or 1 PPM in other words.
>>
>> Perhaps our gun laws do make a difference.
>>
>> John :-#)#
> 
> Traffic accidents kill about 50k Americans per year, firearms in the 
> same ballpark, and Covid is still dropping 500-1k per day.

US death rate from Covid is around 30/day - not 500 or more! Which is 
now about the same as Canada.

Deaths per 100,000 from Covid in Canada was about 1/2 the rate of the 
US. Most of those higher rates of death occurred under the previous US 
administration.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

John

> 
> These fashions of death have been re-categorized as "acts of God" in the 
> public consciousness.
> 
>