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deepnotderp

Isn’t that just because the U.S. has more pre existing conditions (obesity, diabetes, etc)?

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You forgot about:

* Insane levels of poverty for a developed nation

* Limited access to healthcare for many people

* Low level of workers' rights

* Low vaccination rates

I fear the first three bullets have such a bad effect on survivability that the third is not really such a factor.

Other countries, even much poorer ones, which much lower rate of vaccination than the US have lower death rates.

When checked US main causes of death, diabetes rates are very high. At least twice than in other countries. It points to generally bad health condition. Violent death rate is very high (even as 10x higher than in other countries), it points to bad social trust, traffic deaths are at least 2 times as in Germany despite Germans driving with very high speed. It points to much worse safety issues.

Wow, I never made the actual work of comparing numbers. So, what you're saying is, it's basically halfway to Mad Max...

Also I just noticed in my original comment I had made without realizing it a subtle "bullet" joke when talking about the US...

Yes and because of incentivized reporting.

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