What are the chances

We could take into account the odds or statistics against any individual catching any disease, the odds against catching it twice increases more, and the odds against dying of it even more again.

All these odds and more have to be deducted before the medical figures begin to count; yet medical statistics generally assume that everybody who is not medically protected must catch every disease under the sun, and everybody who is not treated by a doctor, are a particular method, must die.

​Therein lies the rub.