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Antipodean's avatar

Yasha, I think you've hit on a really important point with regard to evictions.

By way of example: We've got very bad youth suicide and child poverty here in New Zealand.

For example, from a 2017 report:

"...Think of New Zealand and what likely comes to mind is beautiful nature - fjords, mountains and magnificent landscapes, vast, empty and endless.

But for years already, the country has been struggling with another form of isolation - depression and suicide.

A new report by UNICEF contains a shocking statistic - New Zealand has by far the highest youth suicide rate in the developed world..."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40284130

The majority of the news coverage down here this year, similar to everywhere else has been about covid. We are up to 25 deaths from covid so far: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/new-zealand/

==> There is hardly any coverage in NZ about youth suicide anymore. <==

In the USA, there are, as you have mentioned at various times, evictions, poverty, lack of access to healthcare, the opioid crisis, etc. All of these are serious issues that deserve a lot media coverage.

And yet, it seems all the coverage is on covid...but the actual numbers are confusing to me, in that with five weeks left to 2020, it seems 2018 was also very bad for the USA?

2,839,205 passed away in 2018

Source for 2018 number: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db355.htm

2,590,780 passed away in 2020 (week ending 21st Nov)

Source for 2020 number: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

Side by side: https://imgbox.com/JsFxLnvF

It pains me to say it, but I'd rather see wall to wall coverage of how NZ is going to stop our young people killing themselves, or how the US is going to address poverty, than repeated reporting of case numbers.

This is just my opinion of course, but for the record, not being a US citizen, I'm not a democrat or a republican obviously. I do however think Trump is on some sort of spectrum found in the DSM-IV 😉

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Antipodean's avatar

On a lighter note, I have to agree with comedian Russell Brand when he says: https://youtu.be/sM13sGjeFuE?t=122

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Wendy LaRiviere's avatar

Evictions kill people in a pandemic, lots of people, as the studies show.

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katia's avatar

Mao was right, someone please roll out the guillotines.

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Yasha Levine's avatar

well at least it's something

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