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

[mloxton@med-mastodon.com]

@benroyce
In one specific and very real case that I know personally, killing Grandpa.
Which also led to a spiral in Grandma, and her death a year later.

@PizzaDemon @infobeautiful @ourworldindata

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@mloxton @PizzaDemon @infobeautiful @ourworldindata 😔

[mloxton@med-mastodon.com]

I also want to pause to observe, once again, how absolutely fucking insane it was that instead of masking up, avoiding crowds, and sticking to a sanitary regime, many of these people rushed out to buy guns instead. Because in their folklore, the biggest danger wasn't a disease, but brown people coming to steal their stash of jerky and bourbon

@benroyce @PizzaDemon @infobeautiful @ourworldindata

[snowyca@social.vivaldi.net]

@Trifolium nope--you are missing the point. @infobeautiful @ourworldindata

[olivierburnier@mastodon.social]

@infobeautiful @ourworldindata @franceinfo
Peut-on avoir la même analyse en France. Media publique versus Bolloré group. #FranceInfo

[trifolium@c.im]

@SnowyCA @infobeautiful @ourworldindata

Pray tell then what you think is the point.

[wyatt_h_knott@vermont.masto.host]

@benroyce @admin @PizzaDemon @infobeautiful @ourworldindata also a high sodium diet is a strong stroke risk, and guess what else they pump into our food?

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@Wyatt_H_Knott @admin @PizzaDemon @infobeautiful @ourworldindata

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[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?