This is immoral. Current human-rated spacecraft have a 1 in 250 chance of loss-of-crew (1 in 500 for ascent, 1 in 500 for descent). In a normal launch, the crew are all volunteers and know the risk. The baby is not, and does not. It looks like it would double or triple the probability of death depending on how you count (1:160 stillborn, 6:1000 infant mortality from live births before the age of 1 in the US, 3.3:1000 in the Netherlands).
Some people reschedule at the last minute, leaving a space empty. Some people book round-trip ticket but use them as one-way. Some people (richer than I) book multiple tickets so if, say, a meeting runs late they can still catch the red-eye home.
Not only is that not true, nor funny, but it's a pretty bigoted description of life in Africa.
To start, in Tanzania with one of the highest rates of lion attacks, about 50 people die from lion attacks (I can't find solid numbers; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion#Man-eating says about 37 per year in the 1990s), while 18K people die from traffic accidents.
The usual explanation is lack of education, especially for women, distrust of prophylactics, religious views (eg, the strong influence in Africa of the Catholic Church's fight against condom use), and the view that children will provide more help with the household chores. Yes, the Catholic Church is far more responsible than any fear of lions.
A caution for those as sensitive as me - by the first minute there were several almost certain deaths, and many injured horses. I could not watch any more.
Err, umm. This came 8 months too late for us - only a few weeks to go! But unlike Australia, here in feminist Sweden I get a most of year of paid paternal leave, not two weeks.
I survived as a farmer by "practicing good social distancing." ... and as a mail carrier. Wonder if that says anything about me. They didn't have an option to play as a resident of Gunnison, Colorado, enforcing a cordon sanitaire around the town. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordon_sanitaire#Historical_examples
My introduction to nuclear physics - elementary school, no less - was through Disney's "Our Friend the Atom" book. https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/02/18/our-friend-the-atom-disney/ . A decade later I went back to visit, stopped by to talk with the librarian (I volunteered there in 6th grade), and found that no one else had signed out the book during that decade.
There's also Lawrence Welk. Not only did his TV show have what I would consider to be music videos, but (and I didn't know this until I looked at his Wikipedia page just now), "Welk led his orchestra in many motion picture "Soundies," considered to be the early pioneers of music videos" - and Soundies were mentioned in the article.
To start, in Tanzania with one of the highest rates of lion attacks, about 50 people die from lion attacks (I can't find solid numbers; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion#Man-eating says about 37 per year in the 1990s), while 18K people die from traffic accidents.
The usual explanation is lack of education, especially for women, distrust of prophylactics, religious views (eg, the strong influence in Africa of the Catholic Church's fight against condom use), and the view that children will provide more help with the household chores. Yes, the Catholic Church is far more responsible than any fear of lions.