“Some risk” is often interpreted as enough danger that the activity must be avoided when it can mean “virtually no risk”. https://twitter.com/marklevinenyc/status/1262720293287735298
As an epidemiologist and scientist, if I’m asked about a non-zero risk, I’ll answer “yes there’s some risk but ...” and people stop listening. I once lived near a train track. Technically, there was a derailment risk but I never worried about it.
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