[jyl]

The swine flu talk got me thinking -

What fatality rate for an activity is too high, or not too high, for your tastes?

Let's define some terms.
"Activity" is a single instance of something - a day of motorcycling, a day of downhill skiing, an episode of swine flu, whatever.
"Fatality rate" is number of deaths per 100 such instances. 1 death per 100 instances would equate to a 1% chance of death.
"Too high" means the fatality rate is high enough that you would take serious/determined efforts to avoid the activity. You'd stop motorcycling, stop skiing, cut off contact with others to avoid getting flu, etc.

So - if the fatality rate for an activity were, say, 1 per 100 (1%) - is that too high? Is 1 per 1,000 (0.1%) too high? How about 1 per 10,000 (0.01%)?

Depends on the activity, I realize. Just curious about attitudes toward risk here.