Health: There are so many types of people and even more reasons for what they do. I can only conjecture on this, but here goes.
1- Safety is not cool. It’s not in. Safety is not popular. A raaya: How many people have contributed to this thread?
2- People are lazy. They have nothing compelling them to do so. A CPR course is not required to get a discount on your car insurance or whatever, so they won’t do it.
3- People don’t part with $ money easily unless it’s something they really want. They really want that car for whatever reason, so they are willing to pony up the $.
4- They don’t see the need for it. When something bad happens to someone else, they don’t take it personally. People tend to think, “Those things happen to others, not to me” – until it happens to them.
5- It is not convenient to take these things too seriously. I take safety seriously. I can hardly ever participate in carpools, because of baby car seats and not being able to over-stuff my minivan. So I have to go pick up my kids every time by myself. Very inconvenient. I lightly tell others, “Oh, I’m just a safety nut about these things!”
Shouldn’t we all be “safety nuts” when it comes to our CHILDREN and our own lives?
I could probably sit here and come up with more reasons and so could you. But right now this is people’s attitudes. So Hatzoloh will continue to warn the public every summer about pool safety, and every Purim about drinking and driving, and every Chanuka about fire safety, etc., etc., etc. And I hope that the oilam will take these warnings seriously and no one should know of tragic, but preventable accidents.