This is why risk comparisons are risky: you sound like an asshole.

“This factory was slaughtering and processing upwards of 3,000 to 4,000 cattle per day so this is a massive operation and yet only [11] people got sick,” said William Navarre of the University of Toronto. “Six people die every day in Canada in car accidents and we don’t freak out about cars so much.”

I’m sure it’s a great comfort to the people sick with E. coli O157 from a federal plant teeming with inspectors who were ridiculously slow to go public with warnings to be told they are merely statistical anomalies.

My 17-year-old daughter has been tweeting the heartbreak of her recent breakup. I could say, there’s lots of other fish in the sea, get over it, which would make me factually correct, but still an asshole.

Instead, I told her I would hug her if she was in Australia. And how Susie B broke my heart in high school (or maybe I broke her heart).

I’ve never heard of this food safety expert but the video is at http://www.globalnews.ca/researcher+says+canadians+should+not+overreact+to+ecoli+outbreak/6442730148/story.html.