What Americans die from vs. what's reported in the media

[wyatt_h_knott@vermont.masto.host]

@Trifolium What reason? Sensationalism? Terror and murder go on all over the world, the reporting of it is entirely political. While stroke risk, which is a HUGE problem, and is EASY to fix, gets NOTHING.

Stop talking and start thinking that you might be part of the problem.

@infobeautiful @ourworldindata

[snowyca@social.vivaldi.net]

@Trifolium
The point is this:
There was a time when the media gave us facts not sensationalism...I'm old enough to remember those days.

@infobeautiful @ourworldindata

[mistersql@mastodon.social]

@infobeautiful @ourworldindata Suicide goes up with newspaper coverage so Nytimes can be added to the list of causes of death.

[marjolica@social.linux.pizza]

@benroyce @admin @PizzaDemon @infobeautiful @ourworldindata strokes are due to blood clots forming and migrating to the brain where the circulatory system becomes to small to pass them so the parts of the brain where the obstruction occurs are starved of oxygen.
Yes strokes occur more commonly in people with high blood pressure but not exclusively.

"High blood pressure is the biggest single risk factor for stroke. It plays a part in about half of all strokes."

https://www.stroke.org.uk/stroke/managing-risk/high-blood-pressure

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@marjolica @admin @PizzaDemon @infobeautiful @ourworldindata

oh yeah

thank you for the correction

a scary medical scenario is quickly figuring out if it is an ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke (blockage or bleeding)

and often the treatment for each makes things worse if they diagnose the wrong one

[marcoxa@mastodon.social]

@infobeautiful @ourworldindata

A Fox News column would have a 66% "wokeness" band. 🙄

[yadt@tech.lgbt]

@Trifolium

The point is not that the bias isn't understandable. The point is the impact of the disproportionate coverage.

@infobeautiful @ourworldindata

[robtherunt@cupoftea.social]

@infobeautiful @ourworldindata
No reports (or data collection?) for climate change - floods, fires, heat stroke, cold. Watch this space!

[wavesculptor@climatejustice.social]

@infobeautiful @ourworldindata https://climatejustice.social/@wavesculptor/116094259926360074

[olivia_55@mastodon.social]

@infobeautiful @ourworldindata y are whites easily affected by heart disease and strokes the last time I took a trip to Africa i saw someone with heart diseases it was called an abomination there

[grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@filiph/115332196437726090

@infobeautiful please edit your post to include the source page.

The source was in this post from @filiph :

[bot_anix@nrw.social]

@infobeautiful @ourworldindata Can you differentiate between "domestic homicide" and "femicide" when discussing homicide offenses? Or is femicide not a recognized crime in the US?

[bot_anix@nrw.social]

@benroyce @PizzaDemon @infobeautiful @ourworldindata
"and imagined their prideful ignorance was a magic shield"
Incredibile.

[standev@mstdn.social]

@infobeautiful 1% of the people getting 60% of the attention, you say?

[computeforloot@twit.social]

@infobeautiful @ourworldindata SMFH

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@mloxton 🫂 that's horrible.

@benroyce @PizzaDemon @infobeautiful @ourworldindata

[dresstokilt@mastodon.social]

@infobeautiful @ourworldindata Heart disease doesn't generate clicks.

[jeremydebose@mstdn.social]

@infobeautiful @ourworldindata Heart disease isn't sexy

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@Bot_Anix @PizzaDemon @infobeautiful @ourworldindata

there's stories, not isolated stories, common stories, from nurses and doctors, of MAGA types, in hospitals during COVID, well on their way to death, crying that they don't want to die, and that they will take the vaccine now

and it has to be explained to them that it is far too late for a vaccine

and then they die like that

[wollman@mastodon.social]

@tokphobia @PattyHanson @infobeautiful @ourworldindata Because the news is about what is new. Disease, whether chronic or infectious, has been with humanity since we were living in the trees in Africa. Disease makes news when there's a new treatment or when we learn something about it that we didn't know before. Homicide as a category isn't new either, but each individual homicide *is*, and the relative rarity compared to "natural" causes of death is what makes each individual event newsworthy.