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Old Jun 15, 2012 | 11:01 am
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Originally Posted by sbm12
Yup. The impact is completely real when it happens. No one is disputing that. I'm disputing the assertion that "many are affected" which you claimed. Out of roughly 100 million passengers annually 12,000 affected is actually a very small number.
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It is a consistent theme in posts from channa. Telling him that a number is small invariably - and bizarrely - results in an accusation that you're underestimating the severity of the impact to those people that are affected. The two are inextricably linked, it would appear.

We've seen this play out in a dozen or more threads.
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