I have small kids and completely understand the worry and wouldn’t wish it on anyone, but I think the whole fear of sids is a bit overblown - from what I’ve read the chances are in the order of 1:14000, and is probably on par with leukemia or a host of other things that can happen. I don’t think we should be living in fear of that thing
Availability bias massively shapes any person’s risk view here. A parent who lost a child to this vs one who didn’t are going to have wildly divergent views.
The one who lost is going to be more aligned to “you don’t fully appreciate the cost of losing a child, you can afford to do more“.
The one who didn’t will be more aligned to “it’s a low risk, take sensible precautions but don’t go overboard investing in avoidance here and keep an eye on the other risks besides this”.
It’s not clear to me how to navigate that because as rational as the numbers are, i would be willing to exchange everything to avoid being the parent who lost.
I don’t know. Risk is utterly fascinating, the numbers side is casually interesting but the psychology of how we deal with it… you could spend a lifetime studying that.
