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Oh, for god's sake. Let the protesters blow off some steam. How could this gag possibly hurt ICE? Only a stupid person would walk carelessly down an icy road...
Oh, wait...
Oh, no!
QUICK! CALL AN AMBULANCE! THOUSANDS OF LIVES ARE AT RISK!
Listen I hate ICE as much as the next guy but portraying slipping on ice as harmless is dishonest at best. Slipping and falling is very likely to result in hospitalization or death (over a third of the time, according to the CDC)
We can discredit ICE without distorting reality. All distorting reality does is discredit OURSELVES.
Is that 1/3 of all slip and falls, or 1/3 of slip and falls that were reported to the CDC? I ask because, while I do believe one can be seriously injured through slipping and falling on ice, I've done so at least 10 times and never reported it to anyone.
Am I just lucky, or is there some bias in which slip-and-falls are reported to the CDC?
I don't know, man. I'm not a statistician, I'm just going off what they reported. I thought we all kinda agreed the CDC was one of the last reputable parts of our government.
It's an obvious public safety risk, seeing as the government takes action to mitigate the risk everywhere it gets icy every single year. Besides that, if we are placing anecdotes above official reporting, I only really know about this danger because my dad had a friend who was young and healthy who died from smacking his head on the sidewalk after slipping on ice.
You've not actually linked to where the CDC reports those statistics, so I'm not doubting the CDC so much as I'm doubting your memory of the statistics. The closest I could find from the CDC was that among those 65 or older "about 37% of those who fall reported an injury that required medical treatment or restricted their activity for at least one day"
That's a bit more nuanced than what you said, and isn't limited to slipping on ice (which may be safer, on account of all the extra layers you're wearing).