- 05-21-2012, 12:19 PM #9
30 deaths out of how many babies? (ctually there are on average just over 4,000,000 babies born in the usa each year... and while i agree safety should be a concern.... 30 out of over 4,000,000? that's 0.00075%)
as i said, it depends on the design.
surely making the matress too low and the sides too high, so someone with shorter arms has to "drop" their baby into bed isn't an intelligent design?Last edited by carang; 05-21-2012 at 12:24 PM.
- 05-21-2012, 12:22 PM #10
remember, the usa is also the place where they now have to print on the side of take away coffee cups: "caution: hot"
- 05-21-2012, 12:31 PM #11Registered User
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Nope, that's a stupid design. A better design is a 3 level adjustable crib without drop sides.
As I said, the chances of this affecting any single baby are low - but if a simple design change can save any lives then I'm happy to support it.
I certainly don't think your argument "this is a stupid idea because only a few babies died" holds water better than the one the Consumer Product Safety Commission is making.
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Whenever a new rule is proposed by a group who stand to gain huge amounts of money from the said rule, you should really think about it and examine it very carefully:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...,1578820.story
There was nothing particularly sensible about this ban. Profit motivation drove the whole process from start to end.
Anyone who gets seriously upset by a couple of dozen baby deaths over a period of a decade should look at pedestrian and traffic death&accident statistics for kids...
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- 05-21-2012, 12:55 PM #15
which do you think is more dangerous:
drop side cot
or
dropping your baby into a rigid sided cot because you can't reach the matress
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You are 100% correct, every so slightly more dangerous just the same as a regular car being slightly more dangerous than a 7 seater people mover. But we dont go around banning normal cars and forcing people into bigger versions for safety sake...
Also, it is worth noting that this product was extremely useful to parents and the number of deaths were tiny. More kids died from choking on HotDogs (about 50 per year) than this. This turned out to be cause-de-jour for the media so they hyped it along.
That's why the manufacture of drop side designs is now prohibited in the US.
Fact : Manufacturers had already stopped producing these couple of years before the ban due to recall and liability issues
Fact : ToysRUs, biggest seller of cribs had stopped selling them for almost 2 years previous to the ban.
The ban was helped by the manufacturers themselves for profit reasons. If families were stopped from lending/selling these beds to one another they would have to buy a new and approved crib which made manufacturers huge amounts of money.Last edited by howardcoombs; 05-21-2012 at 01:05 PM.
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