150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

The line is structured as a deadpan, two-part joke: a startling statistic is followed by an absurd “solution.” Its humor comes from satirizing misplaced priorities and the tendency to medicalize or commercialize problems that are better addressed by simple, practical measures (e.g., avoiding hazards) rather than high-tech interventions. The punchline also plays on public anxiety and the pharmaceutical industry’s perceived incentive to create products for marginal risks. Even if the coconut-death figure circulates as a popular factoid, the quip’s real target is the culture of risk amplification and the reflex to seek a purchasable fix for everything.