Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

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White2000GT

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Here's my two cents. I believe that we are turning into a damned if you do, damned if you don't society. Every day I go to Google news and read the articles. Almost every day there will be at least one or two articles about some study going on somewhere in the world.

The use of medicine coated stents to open blocked arteries may leave patients at greater risk for future heart attacks or strokes. But yet, not having a stent implanted and your risk is even greater. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Bloomberg.com: Worldwide

The use of car seats may cause breathing problems for infants which could result in life-threatening oxygen desaturation. But yet, if you don't buckle a child into a car seat... well, I don't even want to think about what could happen. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Car Safety Seats May Cause Breathing Problems for Infants - CME Teaching Brief® - MedPage Today

These are just two examples, but I am sure there will be more and more as the days go by. I mean, do we really need to hear all these things? Are they reported to us for our benefit? Or is it to maintain a near constant state of paranoia?
I'm going to go to the gym in a little while, and I already know that every time I get behind the wheel of my car that there are some sort of statistics that say I have X amount of a chance of being in a fatal crash. But do I really need to know that?
 
I don't know White.. Personally I think it has always been a damned if you or don't world.. It just seems more prevelant when you read it everyday..

Which is why.. Just live life and enjoy it.. because eventually, no matter what someday it will end.. thats just the way its meant to be.
 
That also leads you to the saying "ignorance is bliss." I personally don't really give a monkeys about all these surveys. I leave it to my doctor to tell me what is healthy and what isn't. I know some of the things I do are unhealthy but I really don't care. I'd rather have a short and enjoyable life that a long and worry filled one. It dosen't always work out that way anyway. How many times do you hear about health freaks dropping down dead of a heart attack aged 40? Then on the other hand, you have my Grandad. He smoked like a chimney and drank like a fish. He worked down the mines from a young age and was on the fronts in World War II. However, he didn't die until he was 91!
 
When I was a kid I remember they said red lipstick was dangerous, then it was tuna fish, and I guess it'll always be something. But paranoia will make life miserable so I guess you can just listen to what they say (or not!) and quit worrying about it. I try to just hear if it's something that will really affect me (like a medicine I take, or something like that).
 
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