• banditoitaliano@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hmm, but a big part of the problem here is that vulnerable places like Arizona are also those seeing such high population growth. I’m not sure correcting for that would make the graph “better”, it would just show something different.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not advocating for better or worse. In the end, the data shows what it shows. I’m just saying that there was essentially no “analysis”, making any interpretation inappropriate.

      Hey, more people should survive, thanks to newer medical treatments and more concentration of populations around cities.

      On the flip side, there’s a larger portion of the population that’s older and from out of state.

      In between there’s the chance that the threat of heat-related health problems should be much diminished due to widespread access to air conditioning. But, that also means more people haven’t had first hand experience with heat exhaustion/stroke, and don’t realize how quickly things can go from kinda bad to dead.