Ich wäre gespannt auf neuere Daten, aber diese stammen aus einem Artikel von Scientific American vor COVID.
Von Goodginger
Ich wäre gespannt auf neuere Daten, aber diese stammen aus einem Artikel von Scientific American vor COVID.
Von Goodginger
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Obesity, lack of health care, lack of education, and then, eventually, lack of vaccination.
Is this surprising? The average age of Hawaii residents is 8 years longer than Mississippi or West Virginia residents.
Mistrust of the medical establishment and fewer healthcare resources in Republican-dominated rural areas
Republican corruption, greed, and misinformation.
People used to know how dumb they were and actually listen to advice and fall in line. Now everyone has access to infinite validation on the internet and think they know everything and listen to nobody.
Republicans represent a lot of poor and uneducated people looking to blame someone other than the wealthy and powerful interests that dictate their entire party’s platform.
So many reasons. Poor diet. Bad to no health care. Misinformation about covid, etc.
That graph is pretty self explanatory. The red line is flat since around 2010 and the blue line keeps dropping.
That would suggest that people on the blue line are taking advantage of new scientific advances and red people aren’t.
This is the kind of thing thats hard to *scientifically* pinpoint but, like, we all know why
Republicans aren’t praying hard enough.
Diet. The American diet is horrible. And nobody mentions the biggest issue: sugar!
We have been lied to about how had sugar is for us. It is worse than alcohol yet we happily feed it to children.
So I recently asked my doctor for a prescription to get the newly restricted COVID vaccine. I figured the idiots in the health department had made this mandatory. I found out that NYS does not restrict the COVID vaccine and I can just go get it at the local pharmacy. Maybe sensible decisions help people in blue states live longer?
Bad food and overpriced healthcare.
Effective public health interventions are usually practical, boots on the ground stuff, not necessarily new innovations- accessible clinics, affordable preventative care, pollution control, access to nutritious food and safe housing, addiction treatment, road and pedestrian safety, that kinda thing. It’s done by infrastructure and social programs which need government investment. Republicans tend to cut those investments.
Red states have:
– Less and often worse education (creationism in science classes, abstinence only sex ed)
– More guns
– higher obesity rates
– less access and to worse Healthcare (such as rural communities having fewer hospitals, and smaller hospitals that have to transfer patients elsewhere for procedures when they lack equipment)
– distrust of medical science leading to lower vaccination rates, fewer checkups, less pediatric involvement, and inappropriate/harmful experimental home treatments
– more privatized/less regulated industries and thus worse infrastructure leading to poorer air, soil, and water qualities
– more likely to legalize and participate in inbreeding (first cousin marriages)
– lower rates of post secondary education
– low media literacy, low media access
Red counties tend to be rural. Blue counties tend to be urban.
I wonder how this would chart against a metric like average distance from a hospital, or more specifically, from a stroke center or trauma center.
A people who reject scientific advancement are going to miss the prosperity it brings.
For the same reason that the the value you can gain from an investment is unlimited, but the most you can lose is 100%. The floor is the floor. There’s no ceiling. We still have stone-age tribes on this planet! And we almost certainly will when we land people on Mars.
I suspect the mortality gap grew even bigger during the COVID-19 pandemic when Republicans disproportionately eschewed the vaccines.
Literally the line below the title answers your question
>During this third wave – which continued into early 2021 – the coronavirus death rate among the 20% of Americans living in counties that supported Trump by the highest margins in 2020 was about 170% of the death rate among the one-in-five Americans living in counties that supported Biden by the largest margins.
[https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/03/03/the-changing-political-geography-of-covid-19-over-the-last-two-years/](https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/03/03/the-changing-political-geography-of-covid-19-over-the-last-two-years/)
I read a study (trying to remember where) and the epidemiologists were shocked that literal politics alone (not the usual socioeconomic / gender / racial / region gaps) were the biggest predictor of the COVID death rate.
Telling people to ignore the experts has consequences…
CAPITALISM. when healthcare is limited by what you can pay, it’ll track with wealth.
Republicans think that if they eat a salad someone will call them gay. And then they have to suck a dick. That’s the rules.
> ‚When the axe came into the Forest, the trees said „The handle is one of us“.‘
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woodcutter_and_the_Trees
Its an old story
“Big pharma” is out to get them
Could it be an Urban vs Rural divide? More likely to survive a stroke or heart attack if it happens in the middle of a city where a hospital is minutes away vs a rural town where it could be an hour to the nearest hospital which likely still doesn’t have the cutting edge equipment the city hospital does.
Scientific advancement is useless if people can’t or won’t use them. I live in an area where one of the growing concerns is pertussis (whooping cough). There has been a vaccine for that since 1912, it’s freely available from health departments, and we have babies dying of it. **FFS**.
That data is 6 years old, and partisanship has increased dramatically in that time. Would love to see more up to date data.
I’m guessing it’s because there’s a growing gap between the rich and poor, and advancements in society are just too expensive for the everyday person.