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Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man?
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Holy crap, I just checked the actual numbers and their mortality rate is lower than the average in the population, they're doing fine
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db456.htm#:~:text=Age%2Dspecific%20rates%20increased%2010.1,44%20(248.0%20to%20287.9).
So as long as Event Organisers stay below the average mortality rate, they hold no liability? They are doing fine?
OP: One person died! It's a tragedy!
Turns out that's a better mortality rate than outside the event, not much of a tragedy, more of them would have died if they hadn't went to the event!
Outside the event includes people in their 90s dying of old age in hospitals
Generally the demographic that attends burning man skews younger which is inherently less likely to die
I included a link to the real stats which you didn't check and just with people up to their 40s the mortality rate is high enough that you would expect more people to die during that week...
Heck, let's look at the stats for 2019 so COVID isn't taken in consideration (pdf warning):
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db395-H.pdf
The important table:
Every group starting with the 25-34 y.o. has a mortality rate higher than what has been seen at Burning Man this year, 15-24 is at 49/70k/year so it's pretty much par with the current death rate at the festival, so unless all attendees are 24 or less then they're better off than the general population that didn't attend.