What Americans die from vs. what's reported in the media
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@infobeautiful @ourworldindata
I wanted to track this down (no link in original post I can find)... and here it is.
Note graphic was cropped, leaving out #WaPo and #FoxNews. Not sure why, maybe viewed on small screen? That would explain "swipe" mention.
👉 Reposting the full link because I think the information is important! 👈
#Misinformation #Disinformation Broken #MainstreamMedia #NYTimes
https://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die-from
@infobeautiful Saving this image to my phone so I don’t have to talk to people who scream about crime & terrorism being the worst scourges in the US. I will show this picture and say, “So what about heart disease?”
@infobeautiful @ourworldindata - I have, many more times than once, explained to foreigners on-line who are afraid to visit the United States because they think they'll be murdered in a mass shooting that: I'm over 50 years old and have never been shot or shot at, don't know anyone who has, and have never observed anyone being shot or shot at, and that the very overwhelming majority of gun deaths are suicides. But hey if they want to believe the media over facts they can look up, it's on them.
@infobeautiful @ourworldindata
the COVID stats are not reflecting reality
many more continue to die in the ongoing COVID pandemic. often the deaths are described as natural causes or death after a brief or extended illness (Long COVID)
@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
@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.
@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.
@infobeautiful @ourworldindata Heart disease isn't sexy
@infobeautiful @ourworldindata Heart disease doesn't generate clicks.
@infobeautiful 1% of the people getting 60% of the attention, you say?
@infobeautiful @ourworldindata Can you differentiate between "domestic homicide" and "femicide" when discussing homicide offenses? Or is femicide not a recognized crime in the US?
RE: https://mastodon.social/@filiph/115332196437726090
@infobeautiful please edit your post to include the source page.
The source was in this post from @filiph :
