 Poster: A snowHead
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The UK population is 68m. There are 1,650 road deaths annually, so that's one in every 40,000 people die annually on the roads.
If you fill a football stadium on 1 January, by 31 December two of those people will have died on the roads. Scary, huh?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I fail to see the point of all these posts on most people's ignorance (including mine, I readily admit) of risk assessment and 'unforeseen consequences'. If someone wants, with a very modest outlay, to cover a known risk, however small, why should they be subject to opprobrium?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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All CO detectors require to be fixed (not portable) and either ceiling mounted and at least 300mm from any wall; or wall mounted and positioned at least 150mm below the ceiling
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Mine's not fixed, but it does comply with that rule. I've ordered another, on the advice of the central heating engineer, because of my creaky old boiler. Cost a few quid from Amazon. We never had CO detectors in the days when we all cooked on gas and heated houses with coal, but then we never had seat belts or ski helmets either. Old age is probably the most significant risk to life in my situation.
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@Markscotski, Yeah, those regs are hilarious as well.
The last ones I sited in my son's flat said specifically to install at 1.5m above floor level  .
There must be hundreds of thousands in the wrong place !
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Getting a CO₂ detector to take on holiday costs money. You now have to ask yourself for that money how you can reduce your chances of dying prematurely by the most. Just rushing out and buying the CO₂ detector to take to a hotel/chalet in Europe or North America is almost certainly the wrong[/b] choice, and that money could be spent in other ways that would reduce your risk of premature death more. The failure here is to assume that buying the CO₂ detector is a "zero risk" choice. You have to remember that there is no such thing; all choices have an associated risk, and all you can do is minimize the risk.
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I have yet failed to see what is that ”non-zero risk” of Co2 detector. Yes, you’ve outlined there’s a cost of buying it. But that’s not the same thing. What exactly is the risk? |
I think the general point is that to optimise your risk/reward, you need to understand the relative size of the risks you’re exposed to to decide what is the best way to deploy your cash - maybe spending the money on upgrading to an SUV for the drive, or a better helmet might yield an overall lower risk outcome. But these things are hard to measure. |
The “point” I’m seeing is jabuzzard doesn't know the risk of CO2. But is throwing extra irrelevant considerations into the mix to make a simple matter more complicated in order to justify a non-action under the disguise of “too complicated to know“. 
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