Relative mortality
Relative mortality
4 dead story pushes out 414 dead story.
Obvs one is new and exciting, the other is repetitive and miserable. But it highlights the scale of the daily death toll.
Obvs one is new and exciting, the other is repetitive and miserable. But it highlights the scale of the daily death toll.
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Re: Relative mortality
True, but regardless of where it sits in the news, it's still an interesting event and valid for discussing
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yeah, it's not like we don't have enough bl..dy covid threads to discuss it
plus think this is local to Fishnut? possibly why she's following it...
plus think this is local to Fishnut? possibly why she's following it...
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Re: Relative mortality
EXACTLY
f.ck off there
f.ck off there
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Re: Relative mortality
Discuss it all you like, when did I say you shouldn't? But it seems pretty remarkable how accustomed we all are to 100 Avonmouth explosions, day after day.
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i'm so sorry that i've not been posting "OH MY GOD MORE COVID DEATHS" every day in the subforum. i'll get right on it tomorrow
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Yeah, we should really just talk about the Iraq war, seeing as hundreds of thousands of people died in that.
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I've moved some posts here from the Avonmouth explosion thread as they deserved a topic of their own
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Ischaemic heart disease and stroke are the world’s biggest killers, accounting for a combined 15.2 million deaths in 2016. These diseases have remained the leading causes of death globally in the last 15 years.discovolante wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:09 pmYeah, we should really just talk about the Iraq war, seeing as hundreds of thousands of people died in that.
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I have been reminded of that several times by angry people who demand to know why the government doesn’t shut down the economy to prevent heart disease deaths.jdc wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 8:31 pmIschaemic heart disease and stroke are the world’s biggest killers, accounting for a combined 15.2 million deaths in 2016. These diseases have remained the leading causes of death globally in the last 15 years.discovolante wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:09 pmYeah, we should really just talk about the Iraq war, seeing as hundreds of thousands of people died in that.
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I hope you demanded to know why they thought the govt should. I can't wait to find out the mechanism by which lockdown prevents heart disease.Woodchopper wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 8:33 pmI have been reminded of that several times by angry people who demand to know why the government doesn’t shut down the economy to prevent heart disease deaths.jdc wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 8:31 pmIschaemic heart disease and stroke are the world’s biggest killers, accounting for a combined 15.2 million deaths in 2016. These diseases have remained the leading causes of death globally in the last 15 years.discovolante wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:09 pm
Yeah, we should really just talk about the Iraq war, seeing as hundreds of thousands of people died in that.
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I am pretty sure I've at least quadrupled my relative risk of stoke and ischaemic heart disease during lockdown, but it is possible I'm bucking a wider societal trend. n=1 and all that.jdc wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 8:52 pmI hope you demanded to know why they thought the govt should. I can't wait to find out the mechanism by which lockdown prevents heart disease.Woodchopper wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 8:33 pmI have been reminded of that several times by angry people who demand to know why the government doesn’t shut down the economy to prevent heart disease deaths.
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f.ck, that many?! Thank goodness we started a new subforum when we did.
Who suggested that? They deserve a one of the forum prizes given out in our fabulous annual prize ceremony.
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I don't know what my post is doing here because it wasn't about relative mortality, it was about 24 hour news chasing sensation.
But it's turned out well because it's given us the comedy of four idiots demanding the right to talk about the Avonmouth explosion even though they always had the right to talk about the Avonmouth explosion, while simultaneously not saying a single word about the Avonmouth explosion. Very funny guys. Thanks for being prepared to look stupid for the sake of amusing the rest of us.
But it's turned out well because it's given us the comedy of four idiots demanding the right to talk about the Avonmouth explosion even though they always had the right to talk about the Avonmouth explosion, while simultaneously not saying a single word about the Avonmouth explosion. Very funny guys. Thanks for being prepared to look stupid for the sake of amusing the rest of us.
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I wasn't demanding the right to talk about Avonmouth, I was trying to start an argument with Disco.lpm wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 11:01 amI don't know what my post is doing here because it wasn't about relative mortality, it was about 24 hour news chasing sensation.
But it's turned out well because it's given us the comedy of four idiots demanding the right to talk about the Avonmouth explosion even though they always had the right to talk about the Avonmouth explosion, while simultaneously not saying a single word about the Avonmouth explosion. Very funny guys. Thanks for being prepared to look stupid for the sake of amusing the rest of us.
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I argue with Funk.jdc wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:15 pmI wasn't demanding the right to talk about Avonmouth, I was trying to start an argument with Disco.lpm wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 11:01 amI don't know what my post is doing here because it wasn't about relative mortality, it was about 24 hour news chasing sensation.
But it's turned out well because it's given us the comedy of four idiots demanding the right to talk about the Avonmouth explosion even though they always had the right to talk about the Avonmouth explosion, while simultaneously not saying a single word about the Avonmouth explosion. Very funny guys. Thanks for being prepared to look stupid for the sake of amusing the rest of us.
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Casimir?Woodchopper wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:16 pmI argue with Funk.jdc wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:15 pmI wasn't demanding the right to talk about Avonmouth, I was trying to start an argument with Disco.lpm wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 11:01 amI don't know what my post is doing here because it wasn't about relative mortality, it was about 24 hour news chasing sensation.
But it's turned out well because it's given us the comedy of four idiots demanding the right to talk about the Avonmouth explosion even though they always had the right to talk about the Avonmouth explosion, while simultaneously not saying a single word about the Avonmouth explosion. Very funny guys. Thanks for being prepared to look stupid for the sake of amusing the rest of us.
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Your post is here cos it was reported. I was here just to take the piss out of you until the thread move. Hope that helps, babe.lpm wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 11:01 amI don't know what my post is doing here because it wasn't about relative mortality, it was about 24 hour news chasing sensation.
But it's turned out well because it's given us the comedy of four idiots demanding the right to talk about the Avonmouth explosion even though they always had the right to talk about the Avonmouth explosion, while simultaneously not saying a single word about the Avonmouth explosion. Very funny guys. Thanks for being prepared to look stupid for the sake of amusing the rest of us.
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Re: Relative mortality
One-off accidents/disasters always get more attention than ongoing issues no matter how large. If it bleeds, it leads - as the news story saying goes. And there is always an added element of forced pathos in the run-up to Christmas. If a small child or a kitten had been killed it would have been even bigger news.
We all know heart disease and cancer kill x million people a year. We all know about Covid. It's about salience. Everyone likes a big bang.
And I have friends nearby (but safe).
We all know heart disease and cancer kill x million people a year. We all know about Covid. It's about salience. Everyone likes a big bang.
And I have friends nearby (but safe).
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It's pretty much implicit in the term "News Media". They exist to report new things, and newer more surprising things push out older less surprising things, at least temporarily.Tessa K wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 8:12 pmOne-off accidents/disasters always get more attention than ongoing issues no matter how large. If it bleeds, it leads - as the news story saying goes. And there is always an added element of forced pathos in the run-up to Christmas. If a small child or a kitten had been killed it would have been even bigger news.
We all know heart disease and cancer kill x million people a year. We all know about Covid. It's about salience. Everyone likes a big bang.
And I have friends nearby (but safe).
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