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

[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.

[illetteratolettore@mastodon.uno]

@infobeautiful @ourworldindata lol, should they tell us about every single person who died of a heart attack or cancer? Of course they focus on non-natural death causes.

[technicaladept@techhub.social]

@infobeautiful @ourworldindata more people die every year from falling over in their bath than from terrorism. But start putting cameras in bathrooms and nobody wants to talk about the security aspect.

[wendynowak@mastodon.online]

@infobeautiful @ourworldindata Many Americans die from not being able to afford privatised healthcare!!! Let that be a warning to the UK! PEOPLE WITH MED CONDITIONS DON'T VOTE REFORM!! #uninsurable

[dianora@ottawa.place]

@infobeautiful @ourworldindata fear sells.