U.S life expectancy by state
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You are actually out of your mind. Stop drinking the kool-aid and get out more. Though given that statement you're probably afraid to leave your house.
Do these look like normal stats to you???
I'm mostly just catching a connecting flight at O'Hare. But I did leave the airport in a rental car back in may. I survived, but it did take paying me to be there.
People defend their home turf, home ideology, home slice.
Heroin (and meth) is an issue in the rural far-suburbs bordering cornfields and within very specific neighborhoods. The drug of choice in the past 10 years has been cocaine and before that marijuana. Generally speaking, rural = heroin and urban = cocaine.
I80 through IL, specifically Bolingbrook has been the throughway for drug trafficking as far as I can remember. Every so often law enforcement will intercept a small shipment to get the general public off their back.
Chicago PD has local knowledge for which neighborhoods to not dabble, ICE are outsiders. Saying they were attacked is sensationalism just because ICE vehicles were blocked by local residents or followed and honked at. It is amusing they're only going through Latin neighborhoods and not Oak Lawn or Ukrainian Village.
There are many slices of ANY state that are death traps and it's easy to write a story about them.
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It's sad to see these stats in many large cities.
This can all easily be fixed with stricter law enforcement, non-politicized prosecutors, and larger jails.
"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." - Adam Smith
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I think low IQ adds impulsiveness and lack of control/foresight/consequences. Its a domino effect after that.
I think it's a complicated story. Education level has an affect on IQ and those states with the lowest IQs are also the most poorly educated. I think there's a tendency to treat IQ like it's an innate quality of some people - their raw processing power - but part of it is simply knowing more things leads to people doing better on the IQ test, and it's not because there is some fundamental difference between the average IQ person in Massachusetts and Mississippi.
If you travel "The South" and see what they eat-you can see why obesity is rampant. NOT ROCKET SCIENCE is this case.
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We are NOT going political so watch the commentary closely.
Health is in the hands of people making smart and informed decisions. That’s on the person, not their state, their region, or the political leanings of millions of people in a state.
There’s also a trend of how much ice cream is sold and the number of vehicle deaths occur. People can find trends if they want to. The question is if they’re real and meaningful.
This is precisely how the scientific community screws itself over. I handle a lot of grants and funding. It’s amazing how the body of work proposed is magically at the amount of money that is known for the award, and the phenomena is magically aligned to some sound bite that someone made, or a document that aligns with strategy. Forget independent thought, people know how to please an audience by saying what they want to hear.
If you have a vendetta against religion, say, you’ll be looking to make a point there, forget any other causative factors. Great. You get $1.
IQ I don’t buy either. I’ve encountered some of the worst, dumbest folks with casual alignments to all factors I suspect you’ll say are markers of longevity and superior outcomes.
We see what we want to see. Sprinkle in some PC and we see only what we are told we want to see.
We should seek self betterment instead of entertaining ourselves with what other states do.
Great post
Poorer access to healthcare is poorer access to healthcare, it is a fact that poorer access results in lower life expectancy. Pulling funding from expansions of hospitals, doctors offices, treatment facilities, while directly increasing the overall costs of access as well as medication does in fact result in lower life expectancy.
Like I said ban me, I will write how I choose.
This is for all the members here on BITOG….
Do your absolute best to take care of yourself and stay the heck out of any hospital.
Tons and tons of incompetence, medical malpractice, medical mistakes, medication mixups, surgical instruments not being properly sanitized, instruments left inside patients, accidental deaths covered up by hospital administrators / corporate legal team, etc….
I’ve got some very crazy stories from working at hospitals and seeing some very shady things.
Do your absolute best to take care of yourself and stay the heck out of any hospital.
Tons and tons of incompetence, medical malpractice, medical mistakes, medication mixups, surgical instruments not being properly sanitized, instruments left inside patients, accidental deaths covered up by hospital administrators / corporate legal team, etc….
I’ve got some very crazy stories from working at hospitals and seeing some very shady things.
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While this is true, we can look further into lower life expectancy, past when people die of disease that could have been cured had they had better healthcare.
When people spend a lifetime eating the SAD (Standard American Diet) full of fructose and processed carbs, they are very likely have have a shorter lifespan than those who eat healthy, regardless of how many Doctors they see and how many pharmaceuticals they use.
It is shortsighted to say that if people with poorer access to healthcare just had more healthcare, they would live longer. Some would, but I can imagine that some is a pretty small number.
Weird as I always thought of New York as being more affluent and less cancer prone. Main is fairly remote so maybe more "lumberjack " heavy breakfasts?
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