United States of America

[Schneemann]

Es zeigt sich, überspitzt ausgedrückt, dass nicht nur Waffenfreizügigkeit und Übergewicht problematisch sein können hinsichtlich "Lebenserwartung", sondern dass auch Ignoranz durchaus verheerende Folgen haben kann...

People in Republican Counties Have Higher Death Rates Than Those in Democratic Counties

A growing mortality gap between Republican and Democrat areas may largely stem from policy choices. [...]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the link between politics and health became glaringly obvious. Democrat-leaning “blue” states were more likely to enact mask requirements and vaccine and social distancing mandates. Republican-leaning “red” states were much more resistant to health measures. The consequences of those differences emerged by the end of 2020, when rates of hospitalization and death from COVID rose in conservative counties and dropped in liberal ones. That divergence continued through 2021, when vaccines became widely available. And although the highly transmissible Omicron variant narrowed the gap in infection rates, hospitalization and death rates, which are dramatically reduced by vaccines, remain higher in Republican-leaning parts of the country.

But COVID is only the latest chapter in the story of politics and health. “COVID has really magnified what had already been brewing in American society, which was that, based on where you lived, your risk of death was much different,” says Haider J. Warraich, a physician and researcher at the VA Boston Healthcare System and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...-counties/

Aber ich erinnere mich da auch an einen (Dokumentar-)Film, in dem es um die Theorie einer Erdscheibe ging (was natürlich Schwachsinn ist), wo Vertreter dieser These in den USA anmerkten, sie würden es nicht glauben, dass ihnen die Beine fehlten, so lange sie nicht von einer Bombe weggerissen würden...

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