Gum not as lethal as feared

After a thorough review of the threat posed by exploding chewing gum, we have decided that it was not as lethal as feared. Although it strikes nearly one in 500,000 individuals the fatality rate is less than one in 10,000 incidents. With a world population of approximately seven billion that works out to approximately 1.4 people who will die from it this year. Subtracting the one that already died, we get an expected 0.4 deaths. At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not saddened by the thought of losing this partial person, but we are pleased that it turned out to be less lethal than feared.