Open post giselle @2UN77N28p5355Qgu@mastodon.social · 4mo ago Replying to @eliasp@mastodon.social @2UN77N28p5355Qgu@mastodon.social media focus influences public opinion, public opinion decides voting behaviour, voting behavior defines politics, politics defines policies where money/resource/legal matters are directed to which enable change. Heart diseases can be prevented to a large degree by changes to nutrition, mobility (cars vs bikes/pedestrianization), etc which are all a direct dependency of politics. The drastically different situation in other nations clearly shows @infobeautiful@vis.social @ourworldindata@vis.social @eliasp@mastodon.social @infobeautiful@vis.social @ourworldindata@vis.social so? is there any prescription here? should news dissapear?
Open post giselle @2UN77N28p5355Qgu@mastodon.social · 5mo ago Replying to @infobeautiful@vis.social <p>What American's die from vs What US Media reports on...</p><p>by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://vis.social/@ourworldindata" class="u-url mention">@<span>ourworldindata</span></a></span></p> @infobeautiful@vis.social @ourworldindata@vis.social no shit, wtf do you idiots want the news to do about heart disease, whats new about it