On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 10:20 AM Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 6/7/22 08:53, Mary B wrote:
> I don't think IETF should be making meeting decisions based on risks
> of death from various causes in various countries, although I guess
> they've started doing that with COVID.
I would support IETF making meeting venue decisions based on risks of
death and/or violence. Hardly anyone wants to meet in truly dangerous
areas, and plenty such areas exist. But such decisions should be based
on recent actual statistics rather than fears. I say recent
statistics because as far as I can tell, both COVID and recent political
conflicts seem to have resulted in an increase in violence in the US and
elsewhere. Good luck finding reliable sources of recent statistics though.
And in the absence of supporting statistics, the US shouldn't be assumed
to be safer than anywhere else.
[MB] I would definitely say the US is not safer with regards to gun deaths. The data is there for that. If IETF is making decisions based on risk of death, then they should be changing the food offerings at breaks (i.e., get rid of the cookies and sodas with HFCS) (and there's already a document wtih some helpful guidelines for providing healthy food ;). Per this article (and US stats definitely support this): https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/04/03/709507504/bad-diets-are-responsible-for-more-deaths-than-smoking-global-study-finds. "This study shows that poor diet is the leading risk factor for deaths in the majority of the countries of the world," [/MB]
