> Wait, do you mean "if you were involved in a car crash you'd be less likely to die than if you were involved in a CME"? Car crashes kill around 35k Americans

> Wait, do you mean "if you were involved in a car crash you'd be less likely to die than if you were involved in a CME"? Car crashes kill around 35k Americans per year. Whereas let's say a CME would kill 300M Americans. Even if a CME only happens once every 500 years, your chances of dying in a CME would still be vastly greater than your chances of dying in a car crash, because 35,000 * 500 < 300,000,000. Now granted a CME might not kill 85% of Americans, but they also happen more like every 100 years, rather than every 500. So yeah, the math should actually be pretty terrifying no matter what assumptions you plug in.