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Can politics kill you? Research says the answer increasingly is yes.
| Covid death rates were 11 percent higher in states with Republican-controlled governments and 26 percent higher in areas where voters lean conservative. Similar results emerged about hospital ICU capacity when the concentration of political power in a state was conservative.
The reasons are many, but, increasingly, it is state — and not just federal — policies that have begun to shape the economic, family, environmental and behavioral circumstances that affect people’s well-being.
| The study found that the more conservative the voting records of members of Congress and state legislators, the higher the age-adjusted covid mortality rates — even after taking into account the racial, education and income characteristics of each congressional district along with vaccination rates.
The findings cannot be explained away as features of the economic and social conditions of the people who live in various congressional districts.
| It’s suggesting that there is something going on through political processes associated with the political voting patterns of elected officials.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/12/16/politics-health-relationship/
| reassuring. considering the baseline population is already lower than in left-leaning states, hopefully they'll die off soon.
tho all the putinists being conscripted to die in donbass is a better example. wars are an inevitable consequence of national chauvinism & the last few have been started by republicans on the falsest of pretenses
| Tbh title made me laught, but if government decide that jews are bad and they should have be gassed.. And you are jew, obviously living in nazi germany is bad for your health xd
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| As the coronavirus pandemic approaches its third full winter, two studies reveal an uncomfortable truth: That people living in more-conservative parts of the United States disproportionately bore the burden of illness and death linked to covid-19. The other study found that the more conservative a state’s policies, the shorter the lives of working-age people.