each dot represents metro area representing 100k.
I wonder how this would look if you separate the data by race and average weight?
The average American has the same life expectancy as the worst part of England
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Re: The average American has the same life expectancy as the worst part of England
#52Christ Jesus, the USA are on average as good as Merthyr Tydfil, the epicenter of Welsh coal mining, which Maggie Thatcher destroyed. It's bad, but no one anticipated it to be that bad.
Yeah, well, as long as I can sling code for 100K+ a year in this fine country, it’s not my problem what happens thousands of miles away over in Mississippi. —HN
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s not necessarily recklessness. Cars in the US have gotten much larger and heavier in recent years. A Ford F150 might be safe to drive, but it’s not safer for pedestrians and other road users than the smaller cars we used to have.
I bet phone usage is also a factor. Keep in mind that while we had cell phones for a while, it’s only within the past 10 years that the whole “distraction economy” became a thing, so while people may have used phones to communicate back in the day, nowadays they might be using the phones even more just to attend to those distractions.
With T9 you could send a text with your one hand in your pocket. Try that with an iPhone...
Re: The average American has the same life expectancy as the worst part of England
#54blackpool is the jersey shore of england?
Is Jersey Shore full of bright orange people in cheap "fast fashion" clothing trying to pretend they're on roughly ten times as much money as they really make, who make a big show of ordering "expensive" vodka and flash their platinum credit card around as they chop their 30 quid bag of coke?
Then having thoroughly spoiled the weekend for everyone else, they'll pile into their idiotic loud car that they can't really afford the payments on, and fuck off back to their idiotic trashy house that they can't really afford the payments on?
Then yes, it is.
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#55"1 in 25 Americans being born will not make it to their 40th birthday." Wow. Actually impressed with the analysis backing this up. If you read the entire thread, he actually covers nearly every correlating factor I could think of. And it's pretty clearly drugs, guns, suicide, and cars. (The cardio health one doesn't seem as strong). The one that is crazy to me is the uptick in driving fatalities. Cars are an order of…
Cars are getting so big that people can’t drive them. An indescribably sad statistic: In the US, a parent drives over and kills their kid in the driveway every other day [1]. All the guns also cause -a bunch of— some small kids to kill their siblings every year. [1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna52109
> Cars are getting so big that people can’t drive them
and likewise, people are getting so big they can't drive their cars...
in Texas, police officers in some municipalities have requested that their vehicles be modified to elevate the steering wheel...they literally cannot jam their stomachs between the seat and the wheel, and if they push the seat back far enough they cannot reach the pedals
Re: The average American has the same life expectancy as the worst part of England
#56This seems unsurprising given the drastic differences in typical diet and exercise levels, and the availability of healthcare.
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Can you name an American food that isn't brown?
At least in the UK people eat vegetables that don't come from cans. Americans sure do love their bland fatty salty food, though.
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#58We've had decades of systematic removal of protections and healthcare for people. There is zero political interest in improving things (and even when there is some, it's opposed brutally.)
Both parties are responsible for dismantling the infrastructure to care for the humans who live here in favor of profit seeking. Republicans perhaps only slightly more so, but this is the obvious "finding out" result of the "fuck around" period we've had since the 70s.
Re: The average American has the same life expectancy as the worst part of England
#59each dot represents metro area representing 100k. I wonder how this would look if you separate the data by race and average weight?
The article breaks it down; disparity is consistent across age, race, gender, income…
Re: The average American has the same life expectancy as the worst part of England
#60Christ Jesus, the USA are on average as good as Merthyr Tydfil, the epicenter of Welsh coal mining, which Maggie Thatcher destroyed. It's bad, but no one anticipated it to be that bad.
I'm not surprised at all. If you compare individual US states to other countries, some parts of the US south have worse healthcare systems than third-world nations. The US is by far the worst health country in the OECD.
I don't think it's really about healthcare. It's about everything else in life, that makes people obese or driven into a life of drugs (meth, etc.). Healthcare doesn't really save you from that.