Originally Posted by
Walt
Opioid overdose deaths are twice as high among whites as they are among blacks. Whites are able to skew the arrest numbers towards blacks, but we are not able to change the death numbers. But it is not all whites. Educated whites, urban whites, whites in the upper class, etc. are having almost no problem.
Opioids are hitting rural, uneducated whites, especially men, very hard. And who is most correlated with trump voters? Rural, uneducated whites, especially men.
In fact, that was the best correlation with trump voters around, until someone looked at "worsening health outcomes". Literally, trump voters are the most sick among us.
It is not just opioid abuse. There rates of diabetes is rising off the charts. They are committing suicide at incredible numbers. Everyone else is seeing dropping homicide rates, but not them.
They are dying from even simple things. They are wearing their seatbelts at lower numbers. They are taking up smoking at greater numbers. 40 year old trump voters are starting smoking, which is unheard of in any other population of that age. It is almost like they want to die.
Whatever this is, it has killed far more Americans than AIDS, and all in a much shorter time. This is so bad that it is lowering our overall life expectancy. It is an epic health disaster, that no one noticed. And somehow trump voting is correlated with it.
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