[Sherman Logan]

There is an odd but very real human mental mechanism whereby we panic over uncommon and unfamiliar hazards while calmly accepting much greater hazards that we’re around all the time.

For example, we have two things in the walls of every building that are deadly when combined, and nobody thinks a thing of it. They are, of course, electricity and water.

I am not saying that there aren’t real risks here, only that the panic responses are not necessarily appropriate.

I have some background in containment, and it’s not really all that difficult. The danger is not with a new organism that everybody is incredibly conscious of, it’s with the organisms, sometimes equally deadly, that people have been working with for 20 years, and get careless.

[steve86]

There is an odd but very real human mental mechanism whereby we panic over uncommon and unfamiliar hazards while calmly accepting much greater hazards that we’re around all the time.

Well said. Experience speaks.