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You were responding to a comment about starving to death with some info about flu deaths... Starving to death is indeed very, very rare in the United States.
by umanwizard 8y ago
You were responding to a comment about starving to death with some info about flu deaths...
Starving to death is indeed very, very rare in the United States.
- asdff 8y agoBut evidently flu deaths are not so rare. Just as starving to death is a consequence of economics for the farmer, dying of the flu is a consequence of economics for the poor in the United States. One cannot pay for food during a famine, and the other cannot pay for health services during the yearly epidemic.
- umanwizard 8y agoWhat is your point exactly? That industrialized civilization isn’t actually better than abject rural poverty, because a tiny minority of people still die of poverty-related causes? How do the numbers stack up on each side? 80,000 people is less than 1 in 3750 Americans — I’ll take my chances with those odds over living somewhere with regular famines.