> It’s important to remember the public demand for safety. Let's not pretend that the TSA makes travelers "safer"...admittedly, if you've seen the crap people

> It’s important to remember the public demand for safety. Let's not pretend that the TSA makes travelers "safer"...admittedly, if you've seen the crap people try to take onboard you might disagree. Regardless, the "public demand for safety" is not that. There is a demand for disclosed risk. The world is not safe, but if A happens when B happens % of the time, people are able to feel like they are making informed choices (even if the choices are misinformed). When this cannot be established or remains largely in dispute, society in the USA starts to crumble. So what the US gets is lots of theater with less and less disclosure of actual numbers until it becomes a stream of random noise. This pandemic has highlighted the well-known quality about the US public. The US public demands a specific kind of answers, but the media and government continue to play sensationalism and politics, while everyone else scrambled. That's what I won't forget.