And those killed by drunk drivers.

Wait, can you even get drunk off Corona?

Just imagine the serotonin hit that Registered 2018 must have got off of his name being mentioned in a pokernews article. We will never see the end of these ridiculous threads. Gives me more chance for inane replies.

I asked a friend who is a doctor if I should be worried.
Her professional assessment: "Stop being a p****."

On average every year there are around 35000 people dying in the us from an unintentional fall from a ladder or smt like this.

When will the government block ladders to be used. Also the wsop is in Las Vegas. Las Vegas has a lot of big buildings with a lot of falling down potential.

I demand that the wsop takes quick action and moves the wsop events to the desert, where are no high places.

Sometimes it's good to stop and think about something before posting it.

Enlighten me. Is it different to die from a fall or a drunk driver? So you can make jokes about the unlogical panicking but others cann?

Maybe you should apply your logic to yourself

Hey, if it make sense to you that 35,000 people die in the US every year from falls off ladders, then have at it.

Every 15 seconds someone in the US dies from ladder a fall

That might be injuries but no way deaths.

Tell that to the OP.

Also the number of people that die each year in the usa from falling off a ladder is something like 300 not 35000. 35k is ridiculous, 100 people fall off ladders and die every day? Lol.

About 10 people die every day in the usa from drowning in a pool though.

Dumbest post I've seen.

35000 people is what, one in ten thousand americans? That's a lot of ladder-falling deaths per year in a mid sized city lol. 100 people per million per year, just launching themselves off of ladders towards death

edit: Quickly looked it up, about 300 seems to be the real number

No, it won't be postponed. Taking action with the op on this one.

Will anyone even remember or be talking about the corona virus by the time WSOP rolls around?

How many more weeks will the stock market tank because of this bs?

in the post ww2 boom years approx 1.3 million americans died yearly in ladder falls but a lot of construction was going on..today would be significantly less, perhaps 4-500,000 yearly fatalities.

Unintentional falls are the second most common sort of lethal accidents, after traffic accidents.

Total number of accidental Deaths in the US in 2017: 169,936.

35.000 deaths from falls seems a lot more realistic than 300 to me so it comes down to how strict your definition of "a ladder or smt" is. Even if it is very strict 300 seems ridiculously low.

At least it should bounce back once the fears subside, similar to the US-China trade/tariffs effect on the market.

Third. "Accidental" poisonings (mostly drug overdoses) are the biggest unintentional killer.
36,338 was the number of fatal falls for the US in 2017, however.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm
Gravity should be banned, obv.

1% of the population died falling off of ladders every year in the 1950's? lmao...

You're right, I overlooked the poisonings. I`d say "Ban opioids" but that would be reckless considering the survivors of falls and other accidents who need them.

...Are you QUESTIONING those numbers?

I'd be wasting my breath.

LOL, please tell me you're trolling. 500,000 people, dying every year, from falling off a ladder? Seriously?? So, one out of ~650 people die from falling off a ladder - every year?

And let's go back to those "post ww2" numbers - so with a population of ~140 million people, you figure that almost one out of every hundred people were dying from ladder falls, every year? Good thing there was a baby boom - that's not far off half of the birth rate!

10% of total deaths from all causes were due to falls from ladders? I really, really hope you're trolling.

LOL, no it doesn't. You understand we're talking about ladders, right? Ladders. How often do you think someone dies falling from a ladder?

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Ladder.

Not to be unkind - my condolences to anyone who's lost a loved one to a fall from a ladder. But deaths like that are quite rare.

I love that this silly thread is now about ladder falls. And it's amazing that in this day and age, with the Internet at our fingertips, that this can actually be a "debate". Someone is able to look up the exact number of accidental deaths, yet is unable to take that extra step to confirm ladder deaths. This stuff isn't hard.

All meant in good fun, though - what else could an argument about ladder deaths be?

A man falls off an 80' ladder, but is perfectly fine, how is this possible?

This guy is great, went back to the big ladder after falling.