I doubt medical response is a big factor in this, for most readers of LW. But I don’t actually know—heart attack is up there in terms of likely cause of death for many of us (though not on our next commute, one hopes).
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On the other side, I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned exposure to disease as a risk factor on public transit—only a few years ago it was an overwhelming safety factor, by many orders of magnitude, and pretty much all anyone would consider in this decision. It’s hard to believe that it’s now irrelevant, though it’s hard to figure how to weight it.
Yeah it is tough to weight. My intuition is that it’s pretty small though. I don’t think a lot of people die of diseases that are transmitted from others, although I could see a decent proportion of those diseases being transmitted on public transit.
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Yeah it is tough to weight. My intuition is that it’s pretty small though. I don’t think a lot of people die of diseases that are transmitted from others, although I could see a decent proportion of those diseases being transmitted on public transit.