Did you know....?

Did you there is a disease that is the leading cause of death for people ages 1-44?  Did you know that it is the third leading cause of death overall?  Did you know that it accounts for over 125,000 DEATHS PER YEAR in the US?   This disease is called TRAUMA.  It is slips and falls, gunshots, stabbings, and over 48,000 deaths in motor vehicle accidents alone!!  Where is the public outcry about this?  How do we kill 80 times more civilians per year than the number of soldiers killed in the entire Iraq campaign and no one knows about it?!?  Did you know that we spend $64,000,000 PER DAY on trauma?  That's $50 BILLION per year and no one mentions it.

That's a lot of people friends.  That's a lot of death and destruction.  It's time that we start to pay attention.  It's time we start to watch around our homes, wear our seatbelts, and do what we can to make our workplaces safe.  It's more than just talk.  It's entire communities of people dying each year without us taking great notice.

Thoughts anyone?