Charts are from 2018.

  • @[email protected]English
    14•1 month ago

    ITT: folks try to find an edge case to invalidate the graph of their greatest dislike/concern.

    There are some good topics of progress on earth. There are many bad. There are many injustices and side cases that these graphs don’t display. Folks online sometimes cannot ever see anything but doom.

    • @Kentaree
      18•1 month ago

      Your criticism of the plane crash statistics are dumb. You’re basically complaining that falling numbers because of actual actions on problems don’t count because… Reasons? You can be cynical while recognising that progress is indeed happening

      • @LeafOnTheWindEnglish
        2•1 month ago

        His argument is bad, but that graph is too. It should have started at a later year for a better comparison.

  • @grueEnglish
    4•1 month ago

    I wonder if the “legal slavery” countries and the “leaded gasoline” countries are the same three?

    • @[email protected]English
      6•1 month ago

      Smallpox is definitely not rising again. It was eradicated. That’s why that chart ends at 0.

      Are there other diseases on the rise because of antivax idiots? Certainly. But smallpox ain’t one of them.

        • @[email protected]English
          6•1 month ago

          Which is why I said “other diseases.” Chickenpox and monkey pox may be related, but they are not smallpox. Unless there’s an accident (or an “accident”) at one of the four labs with smallpox samples, or some idiot finds and licks the wrong civil war envelope, it’s gone.

          I’m not arguing your other points, nor that antivax idiots aren’t causing problems. But smallpox specifically is not on the rise.

        • @[email protected]
          0•1 month ago

          That’s not how this works. The monkeypox and chickenpox are different diseases, and the smallpox virus is literally extinct (save for a handful of laboratory samples). There can be no new cases, ever. Even if a similar virus evolved, it’d be a different disease the same way COVID and SARS are different diseases.