Re: You can't just wash that asbestos right out of your bed

..and for the careful people out there - what if they come under the small
%age who are sensitive to asbestos?
Is it not better to reduce your risk and have peace of mind or just go with
the mean figures and say 'what the hell?'
Anth

"Walter Driedger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Anth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Precisely, it's about risk and other factors - you can't just show what
%
> > asbestos exposure would induce cancer in all mice.
> > Anth
> >
> No, but numbers still have meaning.  If one person out of two died after
> working ten years in a dust clogged factory that would be very serious.
And
> from what I gather that's about it.  This definitely a bad career choice.
> It also means that if you spend one day a year in the same factory, your
> average life expectancy with respect to asbestos induced cancer would be
> 5000 years.  In other words, it would add about 1% to my chance of dying
any
> given time period.  It sounds like something to avoid but I wouldn't get
> panic struck if it happened to me once and was unlikely to be repeated.
> Walking across a heap of dust would be like 1 minute.  If this happened
once
> a year, my life expectancy would be 2,400,000 years.  I'm afraid that is
> rather far beyond my planning horizon.  My chances of getting hit by a car
> while walking down the street are a lot higher.
>
> It's worthwhile having a sense of proportion.with your worries.  I put the
> hazard of walking across a plaster/asbestos pile about the same as jay
> walking downtown, more than walking across the street in my neighbourhood
> but a lot less than running across the freeway.  By-the-way, the
probability
> of getting a fine jaywalking has a bigger influence on my decisions than
the
> probability of getting hit by a car.
>
> I do not worry about bogey men anymore.  Much.
>
> Walter.
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