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Hm. Should the news reflect what we die from...? Glaring omission is deaths from airplane crashes. I would guess that is the most disproportionately covered of
by dawhizkid 7y ago
Hm. Should the news reflect what we die from...?
Glaring omission is deaths from airplane crashes. I would guess that is the most disproportionately covered of any cause of death.
I'm also skeptical of the data on drug overdoses. Seems like the opioid epidemic is pretty well-covered these days but listed as only .4% of "Media Coverage" and 1.3% of searches.
- rakoo 7y ago> I would guess that is the most disproportionately covered of any cause of death. 1 death is a tragedy, 1 million death is a statistic. Nuclear falls into the first one, coal into the second.
- megaremote 7y agoIf the news does to proportionally show what we die from, then we all focus on the wrong areas, and vote in politicians who come up with solutions to the wrong areas. For me, the most likely way I have of dying is a car hitting me. Heart disease is not an issue for me as I exercise every single day and eat, and cancer is not a concern as I do the above and anything else will not affect it significantly.
- dylan604 7y ago> Heart disease is not an issue for me as I exercise every single day and eat, and cancer is not a concern as I do the above and anything else will not affect it significantly. If only it were that simple. Yes, exercise greatly decreases the risk of certain things as a healthy body is just that much more resilient. However, please get yourself checked at your regular 10k, 20k, 30k miles. Life happens in funny ways. Don't be an edge case. Also, if you live in California, you have to be super careful of all the cancer causing things that are only known to the state of California.
- closeparen 7y agoArguably the whole health/fitness/diet genre should count as coverage of death due to age and lifestyle factors.