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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Making a statement in 2024 does not mean you used data from 2024…the year isnt even over, so no the data is not from 2024.

Please quote where I said the data was from 2024.

B) those numbers are from COVID as I have explained already

Covid was 2020. I'm doubtful the 2024 report is based entirely on numbers from 2020. I didn't look, and I doubt you did. But I'm doubtful, as I said.

In any case, it's a tragic statistic regardless of that, and also no matter whether we're cutting off "children" at 18 or 19 - and that's a pretty sickening reason to handwave it away. Deaths are deaths, and these are our youth.

Same with this BS:

Once numbers for 2023/post COVID are released it’ll be back to cars being the number one cause.

Do you not recognize how asinine it is to hinge your argument on this? Let's say it's the number 2 cause of death. Hell, let's say it's the number three cause of death.

We have a problem and all some folks can do is nitpick about irrelevant bullshit that would not detract from the argument even if I accepted all the nitpicks.

Anyhow, I somehow missed this bit of classic internet snark, so you can fuck off with this dismissive and inaccurate ad hom:

Let me guess, you’re like 20-23?

I was getting OUT of the military longer ago than that, which is why I can recognize that 19 is a child in all ways that are relevant to their likely level of maturity, and the tragedy of their deaths, plus be appropriately horrified at the continual resistance to doing anything at all about it.

Good Day, Sir.

Edit -

Not that it matters at all except to folks who want to deflect from the problem, but here's the press release that accompanies that 2024 report.

It cites this source, among others, and I'm sure if I wasn't too lazy to crawl the actual PDF I'd find others: https://wonder.cdc.gov/Deaths-by-Underlying-Cause.html

In any case, if deflection, denial, and ad hom attacks are all you got, I see no reason to continue.