COVID-19: A Sobering Perspetive

Jun 20, 2020 6:31 AM

P50Juan

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Source: https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/2634167/

Also: deaths in Canada, including cancer and heart disease: https://app.flourish.studio/visualisation/2596855/?fbclid=IwAR1hGr-FrlXLYQCuVDWfT-5OJxd8ixJMurbVRVTDCY_0S1HlAsJGbgfO_A0

Please practice social distancing and wear a mask.

Who’s still drowning in their house?

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I really hate that I can tell the exact moment when America got COVID cases.

5 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 6

You mean to tell me that an illness that was new, snuck up on us, and with no true prevention was killing more that does have preventions???

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Last frame of the gif /a/o0XuyWE

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Do car crashes not show up in the list? I thought those were a bigger killer than people realize.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Why was heart disease not there

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

That's horrible. But ya know malaria (the mosquito) has killed more people than all of the wars and other illnesses together.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Goes to show that people only give a shit if they can catch it,so many curable/solvable causes of death on this list. This is a dark graph.

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

For COVID plenty don't even care about that. "It's just the flu. Only old people die." etc.. Nothing will change their minds short of death.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Now imagine if we had real numbers from China

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Now imagine if we had real numbers from every country and not just those where covid was suspected.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

fig #1 where's cholera? um communicable diseases in refugee camps??

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Under gastrointestinal infectious diseases (GI Inf Dz). But also this is just a small subjective selection of causes of death, not all.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Gas, gas, gas. I’m gonna step on the gas

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I came here to find this. I'm so glad someone made it.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I wonder where suicide is on this chart

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Why did only COVID start out at zero on 1/1/2020?

5 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

no enough data/evidence digging etc. due to the invisibles and poor/unidentified records. CDC tends to ignore that at the start anyway...

5 years ago | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Yes this bugs me

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What's sobering is those malnutrition numbers

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Maternal? Does that mean died while giving birth?

5 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

I think so. We tend to forget how deadly childbirth is without modern medicine. (Source: married to an obgyn)

5 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 1

Even just being pregnant is really dangerous. There’s miscarriages, ectopic pregnancy, etc.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I’m wondering the same thing. If it is, whose death are we talking about ? The mother or the child?

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Ok, so childbirth, botched abortions, ectopic pregnancies, etc. Thank you, very helpful!

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

A lot of women die in childbith anually. In tanzania the godbye in front of the hospital is always tense as the family dont know if they wil

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Will come out again. Its heartbreaking that the care is so bad, but there are not a lot of nurses pr. Patient

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's kinda terrifying that homicide is at number three. It doesn't look to include war deaths either, as "conflict" is its own category.

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Well, fourth after malnutrition, Which is absolutely fixable, we just don't because there's no money in it.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

We literally produce enough food to feed everyone on the planet

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#1 it should be noted none of the leading cause of death are in the gif

5 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 1

It is on track to replace "Accidents" as the 3rd leading cause of death in the US after heart disease and cancer.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

A lot of the covid death statistics fail to site people already were ill with something else.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

That is an issue with reporting deaths. With old age or other conditions, did they truly die of covid or was it a coincidence

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I am in Canada, and in my province there is 168 deaths, but they fail to site often the vast majority are in old age homes

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

i dont think anybody is going to argue that if you are younger you have a better immune system so I would say its misleading not to site/

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

that age is strong contributing factor to death as well as covid. But that doesn't make a good news story

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

it's insane how much the media has narrative control these days. also social media and paywalls for articles lead to more headline bias

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Why are so many people drowning every year?

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Sexy mermaids.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

It’s a conspiracy - Big Ocean and the Seven Seas consortium trying to reclaim the water in everyone’s bodies

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Its surprising but then it isnt. Civilization has built megapolis around large bodies of water so it makes sense. Dunno if u were joking or.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I was not, seems like a crazy number of people drowning

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It is a crazy number. Im scared to even google how many die from car accidents per year.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

they can't swim

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Thank you very helpful

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

To be more accurate they inhale water or some liquid.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Why do so many people drown?

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

The world is like 70% water, so plenty of opportunities

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Humans can't breathe underwater

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

they can't swim

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

I literally lol’d.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

#AllDiseasesMatter See how stupid that sounds?

5 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 11

But #malariamatters is more of a thing than I thought

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

Bill & Melinda Gates tried to warn us.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Everywhere I go nobody wears a mask anymore, it's scary

5 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 7

Thankfully most people wear them where I live. It’s annoying but it’s so worth it.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I never see anyone wearing a mask where I live. I'm not concerned though, I live in New Zealand.

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5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

After being on US-centric imgur all day, I'm so relieved every time I go to the store and everybody is wearing one here!

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 2

The Imgur mask debate is toxic on both sides. Valid arguments can be made for or against masks, *in addition to other measures*. /1

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 6

as is seen in varying masks requirements throughout the EU. US-centric this has become political... /2

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 6

I don’t see a valid argument opposing wearing a mask unless medically it isn’t good for you to wear it. Not people whining because they

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

can’t breathe as good. If the experts are wrong about masks helping at all then so be it, but how inconvenient is it to wear one to be

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

False sense of security, possible contamination through mishanding, symptomatic people going out with masks. /1

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

How convenient that tuberculosis was left off this fear mongering chart. TB is a top ten killer with well over 1,000,000 deaths every year!

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I hate crap like this, seriously covid has been around less than a year. A lot of the other causes of death have been around for decades 1/2

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

What are the cumulative deaths of those diseases/causes. Not only that we have therapeutics for other diseases. This BS paints a skewed view

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Gasp! Facts and full data, noooooo

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

where's cancer?? 600,000 deaths per year in the US alone

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I was SURE a lot more died of malnutrition every year.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I think it used to be a main killer but it has gotten a lot better in the last decade or so.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There are other causes left out this chart. Why people just cant provide full data?

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

Because if they compared it to similar pandemics like they should have it's not nearly as scary.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Probably because you'd still be scrolling down that animation. There are a lot of reasons people die. Also, does covid only count as >

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

serious when it kills as many people as the top 3 reasons? It's bad enough I'd say, and that's with the world in lockdown.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Tthis assumes best case scenario that all deaths reported from covid are truthful. Some are being reported from other things like 1/

5 years ago | Likes 81 Dislikes 12

Best approach is probably to look at the statistical averages to see a peak in deaths. For many countries is this higher than reported C19.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It also puts first death at January 10 when there's a suspicion the epidemic was already there as early as October 2019 >

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Pneumonia such as Florida State have 4x the cases from that then this time last year. Something like 3k deaths attributed to that and not 2/

5 years ago | Likes 55 Dislikes 6

Maybe it's counterbalanced by pneumonia being falsely counted as covid in other parts of the world.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

What the fuck? I hope this is sarcasm it's really hard to tell

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's not intentional. But for some cases, because of the lack of tests, it happens (I'm in France).

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

word. .wut a coincidence that they had 4x the pneumonia deaths vs a none covid year or you know probably ever.

5 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Covid.

5 years ago | Likes 36 Dislikes 2

COVID is causing the Pneumonia.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Even if other states did even a small fraction of those that's 50k+ deaths not attributed to covid

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Are you trying to say there have only been 2 million deaths in 2020? Heart failure, Cancer and diabetes are all conveniently left off!

5 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 3

Dude, read the graph again, both the title and the part underneath.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

Global deaths due to various causes and CO(VID). There is the implication that theses are all global deaths. It's certainly not clear.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

It's various (selected) causes, not all causes. And as it says on the bottom, these only make up ~7% of all deaths, plus covid.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

More accurate title would have been "7% of Global deaths by selected causes included Covid."

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

It is still implying that covid is the biggest killer right now

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

If that's what u get. I see it showing growth.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

So obviously it's just like the flu. Thankfully it magically disappeared in April!

5 years ago | Likes 389 Dislikes 11

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5 years ago (deleted Apr 29, 2022 3:53 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

I'm guessing reading's not your strong suit. Terror is on the chart. It also gives the listed group as a percentage of total global deaths.

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It goes down if you stop testing

5 years ago | Likes 62 Dislikes 0

Crazy how nature does that

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

I read in a book that smoking is bad for my health so I quit right then and there...

5 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

For fifteen years, I have never read another book.

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Agent Orange never said April of what year. /s

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He will be right eventually

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"Flatten the--oh shit"

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah, but Americans have rights!

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Please for the love of god. Per capita graphs!

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Wow, it's like those countries all have the same size and make up! It's not as though dying with covid is the same as dying of it. Wait...

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well..... we flattened it...

5 years ago | Likes 36 Dislikes 0

"leveled" and "flattened" are not the same thing.

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US is bad, but a lot is influenced by number of tests. Read the CDC website, the US is doing more testing than any country.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 4

We're hitting a lot of asymptomatic carriers that other countries may have not tested. (For example, some states have tested EVERY single ->

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

person in nursing homes, meat care packaging facilities, healthcare, and other essential workers.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

People may not realize this though because of the testing shortage in the US due to incompetence early on.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not per capita

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

A graph of ineffective leadership. Fuck Trump and the cult of morons.

5 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 3

A lot of our governors and local leaders are just as complicit

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

...”and the cult of morons.”

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I just assumed you were taking about all the regular citizens who are dumb enough to buy his shit

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5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

The only stats that really matter are per capital deaths, everything else is just window dressing

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Per capita deaths doesn't work either, as almost every country has a different counting system for COVID deaths. Excess deaths is the best

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

measurement, but it's too early to compare at the moment.

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*India

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ugh..... US, India and Brazil are somehow just getting started. Or restarted.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

the graphs are useful, but honestly i wanna see the bare numbers in context of population. italy, spoain, and france have significantly

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

You don't need to see numbers, it is the shape of the graph that matters in this context.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

for the response as it progresses over time, yes. but it doesn't show how our overall infection rate compares to other countries

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The EU has about 1/3 more people than the US. If you put it in context, it's way worse for the US.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I kinda figured, but I'd like to see data so I can refute deniers directly. Because you know that will be the argument. "but the US has a

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Lot more people! "

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

smaller populations than us, so the ratio of cases/100ppl would be much more useful.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

with same population italty would be about 1.3m, Spain 1.7, France 0.7. Still lower but eh

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#1 that's just disgusting. By using mm/dd/yyyy the fastest changing part of the date is the middle one. What is wrong with you.

5 years ago | Likes 446 Dislikes 31

ISO 8601 master race

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

It’s actually really confusing on a numerical/ sensible scale.

5 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 2

It is confusing, but when it comes to sorting things by date, this format is MUCH superior.

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 15

No. Yyyy-mm-dd is superior in that case. The way the Americans do it is never superior in any situation

5 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 4

mm/dd/yyyy is stupid regardless of circumstance.

5 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 2

I’m glad everyone is worried about the format of the dates and not all the people infected...

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

Focusing on what really matters

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Everyone knows it should be dd/yyyy/mm.

5 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 7

stop

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

As an American, I ALWAYS write dates when possible as YYYY-MM-DD...also for filenames, it automatically places them in correct order.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's a graph made by an American you fucking limey. We clearly can't do anything correctly. Just look at out current state of affairs.

5 years ago | Likes 36 Dislikes 12

*our.... can’t spell properly either.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Like that's relevant for the statement.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

To be educated you have to agree to a massive multi tens of thousands of dollars of debt when you're 17 years old.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It follows how they talk, if someone asks for the date majority of Americans will say June 20th not 20th of June

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

i agree w/ ur disagree lol

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But doesn’t it make more mental calendaring sense to know what month you’re talking before the date?

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 16

Nope, because most of the time the day is the most relevant, as it has by far the highest frequency of change.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

nope, either it’s yyyy-mm-dd or dd-mm-yyyy, nothing good comes from mixing them

5 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 7

How do you say 3/3? March 3rd or the 3rd of March? Honestly curious

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There is a huge difference between the spoken and the written language, not just with dates but with everything, it’s 3rd of March 1987

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No

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(also fuck the US format for all the issues in data manipulation where sometimes a date gets parsed in the correct format, other times US)

5 years ago | Likes 186 Dislikes 26

Makes sense to use the American date format when America is the one with the most cases. USA! USA! USA!

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5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Fuck the European format too, everyone should use ISO-8601 YYYY-MM-DD because it's *literally* the international standard. It also sorts 1/2

5 years ago | Likes 82 Dislikes 14

What is the *figurative* international standard?

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

As a programmer/data scientist, absolutely agree, ISO is the best. But EU is still better than US.

5 years ago | Likes 61 Dislikes 5

Don't care of format, but please, use Timestamp in db...

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

As a data scientist, praise you. Keep spreading the gospel, oh holy one

5 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 3

1) The EU system is more convenient for everyday use. When looking at news the day is usually the first thing I look for as the year is too

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2) wide of a margin

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chronologically when sorting numerically. I'm making it my mission as a Software Engineer to never display a date in any other format. 2/2

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Saaaaame.

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wat's on imgur is still fuckn' up lol

5 years ago | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Worst thing about being Canadian is the inconsistent date format we use all. My personal preference is ISO for just numerical numbers

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Would be good to see heart disease, cancer & stroke in there as well. Or does that get too tied up with total mortality?

5 years ago | Likes 144 Dislikes 0

Lol we can't use full facts here. That would be like using common sense.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

It’s in the Canadian model in the link I posted.

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Suicide?

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

48,324 people committed suicide in 2018 in the US according to the CDC. So to some Americans they would say it's not as bad as the flu...

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Also where is AIDS?

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

That distorts the narrative, you see.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 4

This is global. Not USA centric

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At the end of the timeframe depicted, heart disease would be at about 8 million or so deaths.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

You're right that info graphic is misleading. The listed causes of mortality only 7% of global mortality. Cardiac and cancer eclipse cv19.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

These are merely 1st world problems. The "rest" of earth's population is much larger - but by far not as visible in media and politics...

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

None of them are one thing (think of the hundreds of different forms of cancer) so it's not really fair to compare, Covid19 has one cause

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The same comparison could be made for literally every topic mentioned. Drowning "including deaths during ship sinking is faaaair"

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Other than Parkinson’s, most of these are in the “more preventable” range. Heart disease is often an “everyone dies of something” category.

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Because that doesnt fit the narrative of fear

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The narrative of fear? Because, unlike heart disease, this virus doesn’t care so much if you take care of yourself, eat well, exercise 1/

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Etc? Cancer screening also makes death from cancer far less likely. It is a distinct thing from chronic diseases, thus it’s not wrong to 2/

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Talk about it classifies next to other thing we have less control over.

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Everything that beats covid isn't on the list.

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I feels this is misrepresentation by omission. Don't get me wrong, Corona is serious, but some people are blowing it out of proportion a bit

5 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 10

How is it being blown out of proportion? I'm actually interested in what your perception is of how it's over blown and I'm not judging you

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

The situation is very serious, but the graph makes it seem like it's the world's biggest killer at the moment which it isn't.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Right but your interpretation of the graph is also subjective. Seems like a lot of people understand it's not the world's biggest killer 1/2

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Would placing cancer and heart disease deaths make it better? That's also subjective. Context isn't a clear cut thing

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Causes included in the chart were chosen because they could be eclipsed by C19. The causes left out would provide a more realistic context.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

What is the more realistic context though? Context of causes of deaths? In the West we are repeatedly beaten over the head about cancer and

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Heart disease. Would these have improved the understanding of Covid-19 lethality? I don't think it would. As it stands right now does it? No

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Heart disease kills someone every 38 seconds, so it’d kinda harm the narrative that COVID is a #1 killer

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It's difficult to separate heart disease from old age-related heart failure tho. Chances are we'll all suffer heart disease at some point.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Same applies to cancer. If you live long enough, you will get cancer at some point.Might as well list "dying in your sleep" as the #1 killer

5 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

I can see the click-bait headlines now. "Sleeping could be KILLING you! Here's how!"

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Actually to this day everyone who drank water for long enough died. No matter the daily dose the correlation is undeniable.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Maybe in the US. This is a global data set. Source: i read the citation

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Who's trying to push covid as a "#1 killer"?

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 2

They used to complain that influenza was a bigger killer. Now that it's not true anymore, they're moving on to cancer.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

A lot of folks are pushing the narrative that someone is pushing Covid to be #1 so they can call BS and reopen unsafely.

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 2

This whole politicizing illness business is obscene.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

It would ruin the fear. Covid has nothing on cancer deaths. 600k+ a year in the US alone.

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Be fearful and don’t think! It’s on TV 24/7 and now we have this presentation with moving graphics!

5 years ago | Likes 0 Dislikes 4

let's come back in December and see how that one played out

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I hope you’re wrong but...

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

You dipshit. The argument that x is worse so corona is not a big deal is so fucking dumb. Cancer is a whole other thing.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

We're setting the "Oh Shit!" bar at cancer deaths now? First it was car accidents, until that was proven a rookie number.

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Because cancer is not spreadable person to person.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

and diabetes and road accidents

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Which cancer? You are grouping hundreds of different types together to get that figure, it isn't a fair comparison. also I can't pick up

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Cancer and unknowingly transfer it to my granny because I hugged her

5 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Who the hell hugs their nasty ass grandma?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 7

I always hug your nasty ass grandma when I leave in the morning.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Obviously can't ruin the fear b/c in a state of happiness people won't buy as much stuff or work as hard.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 15

The epidemic is causing people to do the opposite of work and buy things, idiot.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

Well thanks for calling me an idiot. Good to know how you think stranger from the internet.I wish you the best.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

I have always heard heart disease is the number one killer, interesting it was not included....

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It's huge, like 300,000 per year in usa

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When covid topped in US it was ahead of cancer. Only thing ahead of covid was heart diseases. Let's see if they can top that in next round

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Heart disease is more part of the individuals health profile as well as part of natural death (of age). Can’t prevent all types of dying!

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It’s in the Canadian link I posted.

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Heart disease is largely behaviorally induced by the individual and also only *to* the individual. I’m not arguing that that information 1/

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Would also be interesting, simply stating that this is something different because the cause and control is less in the hands of the 2/

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Individual when compared to chronic disease. A single large droplet of covid can kill a healthy person (less likely than an old or infirm 3/

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Individual, but it is still occurring)...thus I suspect it was excluded because it is something that, while being somewhat preventable, 4/

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Neither is homicide

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To be fair that is caused by a person, maybe they are considered asymptomatic.

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Neither is Alcohol...

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Nor is drowning...

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You've obviously never tried to save a drowning person!

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Nor is fire...

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Well...

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Bro my wife just caught maternity and let me tell you that crap is epidemic. Everyone I know is catching it.

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Global disease. Not USA centric.

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Heart disease is global

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So it should be even higher globally, right?

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No. Heart disease is a disease of the well fed and older. Not the majorjty of the world struggling for shelter, safety and food.

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Heart disease is a 'first world' cause of death that comes from inactivity, age and diet rich in calories (and strongly genetic).

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The chart leaves out a lot of bigger killers.

5 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 1

Is that why it says the chart represents less than 7% of deaths annually? Pretty scare mongering chart then no?

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That's all Media. Scare sells ad space, gets viewers, rouses the people.

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Either that or it’s comparing it to other less behaviorally linked causes of death than, say, heart disease. HD is much less likely in an 1/

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Individual who eats well, exercises, etc. that’s not true here...and thus it *should* be categorized differently.

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Man, that malaria is worse than I realized

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You should see cancer. About 9 million dead per year

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And that's why, one day, we humans will eradicate it. With our heads and our hands, we can achieve anything.

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Malnutrition was worse than I thought

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Contrary to the idiots who love to believe vile lies about them, Bill & Melinda Gates are no fools.

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Where are car accidents??

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More than 400,000 people are killed by malaria each year...*most of them children under the age of five*.

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I read once that half of all human deaths ever, in the history of the species, have been caused by malaria.

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I just read that too!

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Also, drowning. Didn't expect that.

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and it is confined to some areas- so inside these areas the percentages are devastating

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Have you tried hydroxyochloroquine??

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Is that you DT

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That's what you take for Malaria

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yep, we forgot it because we eradicated it in western countries a long time ago

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Yep

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what about Parkinson's? I didnt even realize it killed so many and why are so many people drowning?

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Just go to the lake on a weekend. Watch all the drunks try to pilot a boat

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Drownings might have to do with the overturning of boats full of refugees? I didn't think there were that many, but maybe.

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Cuz they can’t swim

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I think the reason we don't hear about it is because it more prevelant in poorer countries. So it's not covered as much

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Don’t worry, we are catching up fast

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Isn’t there a pill to prevent it? Im not an expert, but I swear a friend said she had to take a Malaria pill before going to Africa for work

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Yea like wtf. 500 deaths every day approx. Damn that surprised me

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According to the graph above it's 2,000 per day

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As bad as it is, diarrheal diseases kills almost 4 times as many.

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A day? What the fuck?

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Diarrhoea kills 2,195 children every day—more than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined. 1/9 child deaths worldwide. Totally preventable.

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Who would win? The vast sum of human knowledge and capabilities or one female Anopheles mosquito?

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It is so bad that sickle cell anemia, which makes you weak and sick with just one copy of the gene and kills you with two, is an (1/2)

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advantage in malaria-ridden areas because it also makes you immune to malaria. SCA has evolved independently in humans multiple times.

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#1 killer in all of human history.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Wait till you realized than malnutrition is like the easiest thing to get ride of.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Seriously!! I didn't know that either.

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We had it beat with DDT, but flawed science killed that solution

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Mosquitos are the most dangerous living thing to humans.

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They’re the real murder hornets.

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At least cancer and heart disease isn't even worth a mention. /s

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

yeah, but dafuq is conflict and how do people die because of it?

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 4

You know when it's midnight and you know you should go to sleep but you want to watch another episode... Conflict.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

War and violence

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I cant tell if you're serious or not

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Are you syrius?

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Are you siri?

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5 years ago | Likes 150 Dislikes 2

Is that a real bat????

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Too large tail for a bat, would say that's a small birb

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It's insane that we haven't tried to eradicate mosquitos yet.

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Well there have been some developments with that. Gene drives have been made that would make all offspring male but it's a big decision.

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We did. DDT had cases dropping to almost nothing

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Is malnutrition starvation or like, when you overeat and it kills you?. Either way, lot more people dying than I thought.

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A lot less people dying than I thought. I was going to comment that malnutrition is low and I bet people are being overlooked in rural commu

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Malnutrition is when your body doesn’t get the nutrients it needs to survive. That’s why a lot of foodstuffs are fortified.

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Scurvy is way more of a problem than it should be.

5 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

For anyone interested thispodcastwillkillyou is amazing. They do a different disease every episode.

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Not as simple as starvation as you can have a belly full of food and die of malnutrition e.g. from protein deficiency. Balance > volume

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I never heard of someone dying from protein deficiency who had a "belly full"

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Makes sense to me that someone could die of nutrient deficiency or related complications if their diet is primarily cassava or rice.

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It basically means 'poor nutrition'. Sometimes too much something, more often not enough of the right nutrients, which then ruins your body.

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It literally means 'bad nutrition' as mal = bad

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That’s why it takes up so much of Bill & Melinda Gates’ time and money; it’s killing people by the 10000a and there’s no money in fixing it

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What progress have they made

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BuT BiLl GaTeS iNvEnTeD cOrOnA

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Bill gates cannot invent a fast internet browser, how people believe that bullshit

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You made my day

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Sadly because most western countries don't have issues with it. So they don't care to fund fighting it.

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make mosquitoes extinct would work

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Only the female mosquitoes give you malaria, so you can just kill all the females with automatic laser turrets and let the males live.. /1

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That’s a real project funded by B&M Gates, by the way: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser

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They make insects extinct by releasing males sterilized by radiation

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Interesting!

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

100000s*

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Put a comma there, this is hard to read

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

When the ‘people dying’ number needs commas for readability, really the gist is that’s too many people dying.

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1000,00.

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I don't know if you're Indian or this is random but it helps

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1,0,0,0,0,0,0

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