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Greece infant mortality has been decreasing since 2004 [1] [2] [1] https://knoema.com/atlas/Greece/topics/Demographics/Mortality/Infant-mortality-rate https://

Greece infant mortality has been decreasing since 2004 [1] [2] [1] https://knoema.com/atlas/Greece/topics/Demographics/Mortality/Infant-mortality-rate https://knoema.com/atlas/Greece/topics/Demographics/Mortalit... [2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/806917/infant-mortality-in-greece/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/806917/infant-mortality-...

ataturk 8y ago
How does infant mortality relate to deficit spending? Couldn't technological progress account for the drop in infant mortality? Or maybe they stopped counting certain deaths? I see this all the time with crime stats--you can't compare homicides between the US and Europe because many European countries don't consider a death a homicide until the case is solved. The unsolved cases fall into a black hole of "not counted" or certainly not counted as homicides, and then we get all these breathless articles about how bad crime looks in the US while really US crime rates are very low comparatively speaking. We saw this same issue with Cuba--ginning their numbers to make their wretched healthcare system look better than the US, when in fact, there is absolutely not even a comparison there. Cuba can't even get a bus back to how good the US truly is. And the media eats this shit up because they are apologists for communists and love clickbait, fake news.
growlist 8y ago
So you don't dispute the extreme unemployment then?
- isostatic 8y ago
  I certainly agree with the MO of inflation in Greece pre euro. I'm not sure about the real unemployment situation, but I only know about a few islands, not the mainland. There a lot of people work cash in hand in the tourist trade, they are technically unemployed (and their businesses pay very little in taxation as most of the money isn't declared) Greece should never have been allowed into the euro in the first place. The EU is essential for Greeks, many of whom have gone to other parts of the EU to work, just like Americans left Detroit after 2008.
LMYahooTFY 8y ago
There were studies published showing acute increases in infant mortality during the last few years. I haven't read through them myself, only second hand reports of the findings.

ataturk 8y ago

How does infant mortality relate to deficit spending? Couldn't technological progress account for the drop in infant mortality? Or maybe they stopped counting certain deaths? I see this all the time with crime stats--you can't compare homicides between the US and Europe because many European countries don't consider a death a homicide until the case is solved. The unsolved cases fall into a black hole of "not counted" or certainly not counted as homicides, and then we get all these breathless articles about how bad crime looks in the US while really US crime rates are very low comparatively speaking. We saw this same issue with Cuba--ginning their numbers to make their wretched healthcare system look better than the US, when in fact, there is absolutely not even a comparison there. Cuba can't even get a bus back to how good the US truly is. And the media eats this shit up because they are apologists for communists and love clickbait, fake news.

growlist 8y ago

So you don't dispute the extreme unemployment then?

isostatic 8y ago
I certainly agree with the MO of inflation in Greece pre euro. I'm not sure about the real unemployment situation, but I only know about a few islands, not the mainland. There a lot of people work cash in hand in the tourist trade, they are technically unemployed (and their businesses pay very little in taxation as most of the money isn't declared) Greece should never have been allowed into the euro in the first place. The EU is essential for Greeks, many of whom have gone to other parts of the EU to work, just like Americans left Detroit after 2008.

LMYahooTFY 8y ago

There were studies published showing acute increases in infant mortality during the last few years. I haven't read through them myself, only second hand reports of the findings.