20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes off at airports?

Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o... by barathr on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @01:33PM (#28460382)

This was studied before, and the results are amazing -- it's 266th ranked in terms of disability adjusted life years:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11127-018-0590-...

> If terrorism were a disease, injury, or mental disorder, its DALY would rank in the bottom decile of the 291 diseases and injuries included in the Global Burden of Disease (Murray et al. 2012). Specifically, in Table 7 it is shown that terrorism would rank 266th, i.e., in the bottom 9%. Relative to the diseases that plague mankind, terrorism has limited consequences.

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Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o... by q1w2 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @03:37PM (#28461981)

Death is not the only societal cost, and the study above only looked at first-order numbers of deaths.

Additionally, it's difficult to measure the cost of in-action when responding to an erratic phenomenon like terrorism.

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