“It Can’t Happen to Me”: Today’s Number One Killer

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people.</li><li>People driving drunk because accidents and arrests only happen to other people.</li></ul>And most recently:<ul><li>people not getting vaccinated because bad Covid and/or it’s after-effects only happen to other people.</li></ul>This is a denial of reality. It CAN happen to you. You are part of those “other people” to every other person on the planet. Just because it hasn’t happened to you yet doesn’t mean it can’t. The news is filled with people who regret their choices when they find out it CAN happen to them, and it DID happen to them.<ul><li>My mom, who had my sister because she didn’t think pregnancy could happen to her. (I was “that damned rhythm method” and my younger sister was “one month between pills won’t matter”.)</li><li>The Marlboro Cowboy, who died of lung cancer.</li><li>M

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illions of people who don’t control their weight or stress levels, dying of heart attacks.</li><li>The drunk driver, who crashes into a tree and kills his passenger.</li><li>The priest of a church that sued to stay open during the Covid shut down was shocked when half his congregation came down with Covid.</li><li>The politician who fought against the mask mandates dying of Covid nine days after blasting the vaccine efforts.</li><li>The healthy, 36 yr old father of two small children, who didn’t get vaccinated because Covid just killed the old and weak, is now on life support.</li></ul>They are always surprised. Everyone else rolls their eyes. How could they NOT see this? How could they think they were somehow exempt? Were they stupid or what? Bad things can happen to you. They just can’t happen to ME.</article></body>

“It Can’t Happen to Me”: Today’s Number One Killer

Denial isn’t just a river in Egypt.

“It can’t happen to me” makes people doing amazingly stupid and dangerous things:

Obese people refusing to lose weight because heart disease/attacks only happen to other people.

Smokers continue to smoke because lung cancer only happens to other people.

People having sex without protection because STDs and pregnancy only happen to other people.

People driving drunk because accidents and arrests only happen to other people.

And most recently:

people not getting vaccinated because bad Covid and/or it’s after-effects only happen to other people.

This is a denial of reality. It CAN happen to you. You are part of those “other people” to every other person on the planet. Just because it hasn’t happened to you yet doesn’t mean it can’t. The news is filled with people who regret their choices when they find out it CAN happen to them, and it DID happen to them.

My mom, who had my sister because she didn’t think pregnancy could happen to her. (I was “that damned rhythm method” and my younger sister was “one month between pills won’t matter”.)

The Marlboro Cowboy, who died of lung cancer.

Millions of people who don’t control their weight or stress levels, dying of heart attacks.

The drunk driver, who crashes into a tree and kills his passenger.

The priest of a church that sued to stay open during the Covid shut down was shocked when half his congregation came down with Covid.

The politician who fought against the mask mandates dying of Covid nine days after blasting the vaccine efforts.

The healthy, 36 yr old father of two small children, who didn’t get vaccinated because Covid just killed the old and weak, is now on life support.

They are always surprised. Everyone else rolls their eyes. How could they NOT see this? How could they think they were somehow exempt? Were they stupid or what? Bad things can happen to you. They just can’t happen to ME.