We all have biases, but sometimes our biases can get us killed.

That's what I'm going to talk about today here on the Council of Trent.

Mondays and Wednesdays, we talk apologetics and theology, but Friday we talk about whatever I want to talk about.

That is the essence of Free for All Friday.

If you go back through Council of Trent, we've done, my goodness, we've done at least over 300 Free for All Fridays.

I'm sure someone, if they had a lot of time on their hands, could see what kind of moods I was in,

what kind of hobbies or issues were piquing my interests at various times over the past eight years.

I remember when Free For All Friday started, I was really on disaster fix for a while.

I was talking about disasters here. I still have a book on disasters that I would love to write at

some point, so maybe we will work on that. But today I want to talk about a thing called

normalcy bias and how it manifests in disasters. And the catalyst for the discussion is a disaster that took

place recently took place last month. It took place on New Year's Day, actually, in Switzerland.

So this was in a town, a ski town called Cranes, Montana, the region of Valias in Switzerland.

January 1st, 126 a.m. local time at this bar. It's a bar called La Constellation.

And you've got like over a hundred people in there. They're still celebrating New Year's,

they're partying. And they start passing out the sparklers. You know, they're just, they're really

aggressive sparklers shooting sparks up. And there's a waitress coming out with champagne, and there's

bottle-toppers with the sparklers going off, and the band is still playing. And then, and you can see

all this because there's people who are recording it on their cell phones. The sparklers go,

and then they catch light the ceiling because the ceiling is covered in black acoustic foam, which is incredibly dangerous

because acoustic foam is highly, highly flammable.

The fire spreads quickly, and when it does burn, it emits an extremely toxic gas within

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