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Even if they're in low earth orbit an impact could spread pieces into higher orbit due to the energies involved. That could in turn impact other satellites at a higher orbit and just keep going.
Quantum mechanics also says that all the air in my lungs could collapse to a single point, but on the grand scale, these things don't happen. Risk analysis requires evaluation of probabilities.
Some of these people haven't heard of ORM and it shows.