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It's really remarkable how well the USA has done in drastically decreasing the total number of childhood deaths the last 50 years. It's depressing that the rema
by superkuh 4y ago
It's really remarkable how well the USA has done in drastically decreasing the total number of childhood deaths the last 50 years. It's depressing that the remaining statistical noise for a population of ~75 million kids can so dominate the news and public consciousness as if there were net increases in the per population rates.
- yawnr 4y agoThe statistical noise of opioid deaths is the depressing part?
- macintux 4y agoI would have some vague sympathy for your argument were it not for the fact that death is far from the only negative consequence. Opioid addiction is a lifelong curse.
- lostlogin 4y agoFor anyone interested, here is how the US has done. Not great since 2000, pretty great before that. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/infant-mortality-rate https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/infa...
- superkuh 4y agoInfant mortality is pretty good too, yes. But I was using the entire 0-18 year old range of US citizens. And now that we're down to just a trickle of preventable childhood deaths the relative proportion of deaths to drug overdoses and firearms is higher but even those per capita numbers are significantly lower than the ~1960s.