People fixate over these tiny things, little differences in the arrangement of deck chairs, as they are dying of a medical condition called aging, that might be controlled and prevented entirely if enough of them stopped fixating on tiny things and started helping to fund rejuvenation therapies.
There are startup companies now, today, working on the first rejuvenation treatments that address one of the actual root causes of aging. Oisin Biotechnologies and UNITY Biotechnology. Look them up, look up the senescent cell clearance methodologies they are turning from labwork to clinical treatment. Yet what is in the news and the thing that people pay attention to? Tiny differences in the status quo, who has a better deck chair as the ship is going down.
It is a frustrating thing to be living in the human condition.
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.
There used to be a lot of farmers there as well, but the mega-farmers won-out and now it's just massive acres to a relatively few folks. Most of it is just sheer ruthlessness paired with advances in technology.
The condition of rural America is going to be the same condition in any other area dependent on a monopolized industry. Just you wait and see, "tech" is going to go through the same thing. In fact, it already is. Those "tech bros" are the same kind of shit bags that left rural American in a mess.
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".
I think the big elephant in the room is stress. Stress is a proven killer and most would agree that working causes stress. White women have for a long time been an extremely privileged class not needing to work in general since the expectation for women was to get married and have somebody provide for you. Now women have equal rights with all the downsides it entails including stress.
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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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 29.5 ms ] threadThere are startup companies now, today, working on the first rejuvenation treatments that address one of the actual root causes of aging. Oisin Biotechnologies and UNITY Biotechnology. Look them up, look up the senescent cell clearance methodologies they are turning from labwork to clinical treatment. Yet what is in the news and the thing that people pay attention to? Tiny differences in the status quo, who has a better deck chair as the ship is going down.
It is a frustrating thing to be living in the human condition.
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.
The condition of rural America is going to be the same condition in any other area dependent on a monopolized industry. Just you wait and see, "tech" is going to go through the same thing. In fact, it already is. Those "tech bros" are the same kind of shit bags that left rural American in a mess.
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.