What Americans die from vs. what's reported in the media
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What Americans die from vs. what's reported in the media
@infobeautiful 1% of the people getting 60% of the attention, you say?
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What Americans die from vs. what's reported in the media
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@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.@mloxton 🫂 that's horrible.
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What Americans die from vs. what's reported in the media
@infobeautiful @ourworldindata Heart disease doesn't generate clicks.
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What Americans die from vs. what's reported in the media
@infobeautiful @ourworldindata Heart disease isn't sexy
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@benroyce @PizzaDemon @infobeautiful @ourworldindata
"and imagined their prideful ignorance was a magic shield"
Incredibile.@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
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@PattyHanson @infobeautiful @ourworldindata that's not exactly what the graph is about. The media isn't claiming that 18% of deaths are terrorism. Instead, reporting about terrorism deaths makes up about 18% of all reporting on deaths. In other words, the media *talks* a lot about terrorism deaths, but it doesn't *claim* that those deaths make up 18% of the total.
@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.
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What Americans die from vs. what's reported in the media
@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.
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What Americans die from vs. what's reported in the media
@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.
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What Americans die from vs. what's reported in the media
@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
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What Americans die from vs. what's reported in the media
@infobeautiful @ourworldindata fear sells.
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