Smitty Two wrote:

As for GFCIs, absolute bull****. The number of electrocutions in the
home, in the U.S. is vanishingly small. I researched this a few years
ago for an a.h.r. discussion, and IIRC, about ten times as many people
die by falling down while walking on level ground. A law requiring
installation of tens of millions of devices in order to keep ~20 people
per year alive is absolutely, positively insane.

Amen! And then consider the cost of all the GFCIs attached to hairdryers and
curling irons in the past 20 years - millions of diollars, when 99% of the
outlets they are plugged into are already protected by GFCIs.