Posted on 01/22/2014 7:34:06 PM PST by kingattax
With drowning in backyard pools accounting for so many child deaths in Australia, is it time to ban backyard pools? Jo Abi says yes.
Drowning is one of the leading cause of death in children under five with majority of those deaths occurring in backyard pools. So why haven’t backyard pools been banned?
If any other product or activity caused so many injuries and deaths in our most vulnerable they would be banned, there would be lawsuits, there would be outrage. Except backyard pools are an intrinsic part of Australian culture, and it’s costing us children’s lives.
According to Kidsafe, an average of two Australian children drown each week. Most are under 5 years of age and more than half drown in backyard pools. “The children at greatest risk are toddlers, aged 1-3, and for them drowning is the single most common cause of death”.
This statistic doesn’t account for the number of near drownings, many of which result in brain injuries.
(Excerpt) Read more at ivillage.com.au ...
Don’t ban the swimming pools — ban the water in it.
What about motor vehicles and electricity?
No, no, no...they’re good for emergency water.
This is NOT about child deaths —this is about INEQUALITY:
The left hates the following things:
1. Golf courses
2. Ski resorts
3. Back-yard pools
What do these things have in common? They are options for UPPER INCOME PEOPLE.
Can’t stop with pools....
CPSC Warns: Pools Are Not the Only Drowning Danger at Home for Kids - Data Show Other Hazards Cause More than 100 Residential Child Drowning Deaths Annually
MAY 23, 2002 Release Number: 02169
Young children are irresistibly drawn to water, and tragically, about 350 children under age 5 drown in swimming pools each year. But even if you don’t have a pool, your young children may not be safe from drowning. At next month’s World Congress on Drowning, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) presented data showing that about one-third as many children (an average of about 115 annually) drown from other hazards around the home as do in pools. CPSC has received reports of 459 young children who drowned in bathtubs, buckets, toilets, spas, hot tubs and other containers of water in a 4-year period between 1996 and 1999.
Found this in “Keep and Bear Arms” archive
The Slippery Menace
Unregulated bathtubs cause over 200,000 injuries every year How many more must die in the cold porcelain of the household bathtub before we come to our collective senses? This all too common appliance is a proven killer. Unregulated bathtubs cause over 200,000 injuries every year. There are over 100 drownings and 70 people cooked to death in scalding bath water each and every year. Add the suicides, falls, and deliberate murders that take place in tubs, and the death toll mounts. Sadly, children comprise 75% of the fatalities.
Many European nations have long recognized the risk inherent in bathtubs and have reduced the use of them. Yet in the United States, the bathing culture is rampant, and leads to death and suffering on a gigantic scale. There are those who claim that bath tub use is justified under certain circumstances. Some claim that bathtubs are necessary for cleanliness. Is personal vanity more important to you than a child’s safety?
Recreation is often espoused as a legitimate use of the bathtub but can be disregarded out of hand. No brief thrill is worth the cost of maintaining one of these deadly instruments of destruction in your home. Research shows that the chances of drowning or being boiled in your bathtub are greater than the chances of inducing a supermodel of the opposite sex to share it with you.
Steps should be taken at once to register tubs. Our government at present does not even know for sure how many of these killer devices exist! Simply incorporating a few questions into the upcoming census would help authorities to determine the size of regulatory agency needed to enforce license requirements.
Many bathtubs hold up to 18 inches of water. The variety known as the “spa” or “hot tub” may hold even more, and has been implicated in cases of date rape. Some of these assault tubs can have as much as 24 inches of water and various automatic jets, whirlpools, and heaters, which make them attractive to the criminal bather. Our legislature should take steps to limit all new bathtubs to holding 3 inches of water. This should reduce the chances of mass drowning significantly.
Of course, children make up the overwhelming number of bathtub victims. Even if you do not own a bathtub, your child’s friends may have parents who are irresponsible bathers. The common sense solution is for people to use faucet locks. Faucet locks can be easily mandated by government, enforced by a new agency set up specifically with tub safety in mind, and subject to in-home inspections at households with registered bathtubs.
Regardless of any “right” claimed by the pro-bathing crowd, (a right which is never mentioned in the Constitution) precedents have already been established for bathroom fixture regulation. The Supreme Court has so far refused to hear any cases involving environmentally friendly commodes, thereby pointing out the foolishness of those who say that the government requirement of a toilet that doesn’t work is some kind of tyranny. We should continue to educate these malcontents and inform their children of the stubborn and selfish ways of their parents.
How can you get involved in insuring your children’s safety? The most important thing you can do is to eliminate your bathtub immediately. Your tub is not “necessary” to your family’s well being, and in fact is more likely to kill or injure a member of your family or a friend, than it is to drown a burglar. The benefits of eliminating your tub will be immediate and noticeable. There will be a certain air about you that says, “I did away with my bathtub and I’m safer for it.” Lobby your legislators to immediately invoke new laws to insure your safety from tubs. Give them money if you have to. Write nasty letters, stage protests, and organize anti-bathing individuals to stand around in legislative chambers. You WILL be noticed. Finally, join Bathtub Sanity, the only organization dedicated to your safety from this menace. At B.S. we are constantly involved in political action, research, and public education. We even maintain a facility containing various models of assault tubs, which our staff researches and tests at considerable personal danger.
Your children deserve to be safe, no matter the inconvenience or hardship. They cry out for your protection. Would you deny them?
It was only a matter of time.
How about cars too.
“False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction.
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.”
— Cesare Beccaria, as quoted by Thomas Jefferson’s Commonplace book
Like the Crazy Man veto. If we could just ban free speech, and stop that one crazy man from killing someone, then its worth it
How in the heck did a krait get in there? I didn’t think that was one of Australia’s native snakes. I thought that was an Indian/African snake.
That’s why I worry about people importing exotic hot snakes to the US. What if one escaped and was pregnant, or gravid, or whatever snakes get?What if it happened in, say, Florida, where the weather wouldn’t necessarily kill it? The escaped and released constrictors are doing just great in the Everglades, they’ve adapted just fine and are feasting on the local wildlife.
Life causes death. They should ban life.
LOL...That may be on the list somewhere...Or ban parents...
They will finally have to ban old age!
No fences? No positive-closure gates? No parenting?
>> Drowning is one of the leading cause of death in children under five
The idiots must first ban the leading cause of death for children older than 4.
Well, I would opine that, the leading cause of death is......LIFE.
And so, the crazies, the Left, in their search for ‘safety’ and ‘no dying’, support abortion. “If we just kill these kids before they come into the world, then they wont die. It really is for their own good.”
Say no to H2O!
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