Something that keeps me up at night: The growing global number of people disabled by Covid & how they will be left further deserted as the climate crisis escalates
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I agree that for body temperature or sex-ratios, it wouldn't make sense insisting on starting at zero.
In your case, I don't think starting at zero would make the interesting trend hard to spot.
Healthy & fit medical friends died during covid, treating the ill. Other friends have been disabled by covid. Yet there are still people out there claiming covid isn't serious or even that it doesn't exist.
This keeps me up too. We are disabling the world currently by ignoring repeat Covid infections and the data that says it isn’t good for the human body. It cannot be sustainable for humanity to keep getting infected.
Combined with long covid kids in the school age range who will have to struggle through the education system that already does not do well with children who have learning challenges. These kids were already going to be handed a destroyed environment, and will be less equipped to handle it.😒😔
Yeah, that's bad craic. My wife heard a guy moaning today that he currently has the flu (get out of the shops then and go home!) because of that jab a few years ago.
I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one who worries about the intersection of these issues (when I say it out loud to people—even those who should get it—they look at me like I have 8 eyes)
Heartbreaking. The kids today are going to be more unhealthy than we have been in recent history and with a more hostile planet than any human has ever seen.
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Everything.
Penury = Overwhelmed Public Services = Triage = Abandonment of the chronically ill.
Survival of the fittest. And Long Haulers are anything but fit. But they are legion. And growing in numbers daily.
-Edward Tufte
I found a discussion about this here:
https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/184525/how-to-determine-whether-or-not-the-y-axis-of-a-graph-should-start-at-zero
I agree that for body temperature or sex-ratios, it wouldn't make sense insisting on starting at zero.
In your case, I don't think starting at zero would make the interesting trend hard to spot.
But it's not my graph. It's from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis