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I mean, we already know how to prevent obesity. You just eat less. Now there are (for now, expensive) drugs to help people do that. The real issue is that hu
by Auracle 3y ago
I mean, we already know how to prevent obesity. You just eat less.
Now there are (for now, expensive) drugs to help people do that.
The real issue is that human attention isn't great when bad things are spread out. School shootings get a lot of attention. They're scary, it's one single event, etc. Yet kids are far, far more likely to die from many other things that we could prevent.
For instance, in 2020 220 children under the age of 14 died due to drunk drivers:
https://www.nhtsa.gov/driving-drunk-or-high-puts-everyone-danger https://www.nhtsa.gov/driving-drunk-or-high-puts-everyone-da...