As someone who likes to dive into data a bit, these animations, while cool, made me anxious. Also, why only show the change in rate (i.e. 2nd derivation)? I'd like to see the first derivation too. Especially in order to support the title - if death rates were high in the cities and low in rural areas, this development actually leads to a narrowing of the "health gap".
Did you even read the article? It talks about rising death rates due to preventable causes like smoking, obesity, alcohol, and opioid abuse. While the changes may seem minor, they are indicative of larger social issues.
EDIT: Looking through your submission history, it's all links to a dubious site, www.fightaging.org. Surprised you didn't just provide a direct link.
It is weird how everyone has cancer. I heard rumours of those worthless shitbags at the CIA doing secret tests and crap in rural America.
Paired with a corrupt government, poor infrastructure and corrupt officials... they might have some really bad standards. Not to mention all that racism and toxic culture. Although both are as much symptoms as the rampant abuse of drugs.
Maybe the CIA just ran out of blacks and chinese people to sell drugs to, or got chased out of those areas by stronger and better equipped competitors and resorted to pushing pharmaceuticals to rural USA. Who would that surprise, nobody at all.
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EDIT: Looking through your submission history, it's all links to a dubious site, www.fightaging.org. Surprised you didn't just provide a direct link.
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Paired with a corrupt government, poor infrastructure and corrupt officials... they might have some really bad standards. Not to mention all that racism and toxic culture. Although both are as much symptoms as the rampant abuse of drugs.
Maybe the CIA just ran out of blacks and chinese people to sell drugs to, or got chased out of those areas by stronger and better equipped competitors and resorted to pushing pharmaceuticals to rural USA. Who would that surprise, nobody at all.