Public health disparities provide an important lens for understanding social and political change in the USA. Using individual-level medical data and death records, this study shows that conservative Americans experienced worsening health and higher mortality than liberals during the 2010s. Here we find evidence consistent with two potential mechanisms. First, demographic realignment within political coalitions brought less healthy individuals into the conservative camp. Yet by the 2020s, demographic change, public policy and COVID-19 do not fully account for the widening gap in mortality rates. Public opinion data are consistent with a second mechanism: declining trust in medical professionals among right-leaning individuals, including lower willingness to seek care, follow clinical advice or believe in medication effectiveness, even for issues unrelated to COVID-19. These patterns suggest that growing ideological divides in health behaviours are leaving conservative Americans increasingly vulnerable to preventable health risks. Using individual-level medical data and death records, this study finds that conservatives in the USA experienced worse health and higher mortality than liberals during the 2010s. No significant gaps in biomarkers or mortality were present before the 2010s.
Cool. You live in your grey area where Nazis have some good qualities and maybe you can reach them if you overlook the fact that they’re absolute garbage. That’s definitely stopped fascists before.
Okay, so you just typed some non sequitur and expected that nobody would assume you were responding to the substance of the discussion taking place? Rad.
No, I was responding to the discussion about losing a loved one who was brainwashed. Based on the full discussion it’s unclear if he even supported Trump or was just brainwashed by homeopathic and or antivax propaganda, which is not exclusive to one political party.
You’re getting oddly defensive about this though. Tubular. 🤙🏄♀️
Pretty fucked up your making fun of someone who lost a loved one. Completely ignorant to think something like that couldn’t happen to you, unless you don’t have loved ones, dick.
Don’t you know that the US and Canada are twins? Don’t you see that your country is going the exact same way ours is? Those are your friends and family who are reading the same trash, maybe wedging its way into the same cracks in their logic that killed someone I loved.
If it hasn’t happened, it will. And I hope when it does, you try to save them too.
Yes, I know that your inaction is likely to make this our problem eventually too.
And when it does, any “friends and family” espousing that garbage gets cut off AT BEST. If they’re fortunate, they’ll get to keep all their teeth. And if they decide that conspiracy theories are more attractive than, you know, staying alive, good riddance.
Looking through your comment history, you seem to make a career out of blaming and mocking victims. I have to wonder who hurt you so badly that you spend all day hurting other people. How does using your trauma like it’s a keyboard assault weapon help your cause?
Cool. Very noble and high minded, aren’t you?.
People like you are the reason the US is where it is.
Yes… too many people with empathy and beliefs rooted in complex first hand experience. That’s why the U.S. is where it is…
Definitely nothing to do with people jumping to conclusion driven by black and white thinking
Cool. You live in your grey area where Nazis have some good qualities and maybe you can reach them if you overlook the fact that they’re absolute garbage. That’s definitely stopped fascists before.
I don’t want to accuse you of pulling something out of your ass just to box me into a false dichotomy, but I also don’t recall typing any of that?
Okay, so you just typed some non sequitur and expected that nobody would assume you were responding to the substance of the discussion taking place? Rad.
No, I was responding to the discussion about losing a loved one who was brainwashed. Based on the full discussion it’s unclear if he even supported Trump or was just brainwashed by homeopathic and or antivax propaganda, which is not exclusive to one political party.
You’re getting oddly defensive about this though. Tubular. 🤙🏄♀️
Pretty fucked up your making fun of someone who lost a loved one. Completely ignorant to think something like that couldn’t happen to you, unless you don’t have loved ones, dick.
When maga stop wanting me dead I’ll start caring when they die.
Preach.
I’m not making fun of anyone, I’m criticizing someone. For the things they’re saying.
Does experiencing grief (even for science-denying fascist enablers) equal immunity from criticism where you’re from?
Never said that but keep shadowboxing comments online to feel good about yourself you fukin loser
You’re weird and your username is weird.
Don’t you know that the US and Canada are twins? Don’t you see that your country is going the exact same way ours is? Those are your friends and family who are reading the same trash, maybe wedging its way into the same cracks in their logic that killed someone I loved.
If it hasn’t happened, it will. And I hope when it does, you try to save them too.
Yes, I know that your inaction is likely to make this our problem eventually too.
And when it does, any “friends and family” espousing that garbage gets cut off AT BEST. If they’re fortunate, they’ll get to keep all their teeth. And if they decide that conspiracy theories are more attractive than, you know, staying alive, good riddance.
Looking through your comment history, you seem to make a career out of blaming and mocking victims. I have to wonder who hurt you so badly that you spend all day hurting other people. How does using your trauma like it’s a keyboard assault weapon help your cause?
MAGA aren’t victims. They’re the perpetrators. Fuck’s sake, these ignorant bigots have agency.
“Victims.”
You’re confusing laziness and complacency with helplessness.
Who hurt you? lol