- I wouldn't put suicides under guns, because there's a higher suicide rate in Japan, it's just that they don't use guns to do it, so it might be unrelated to gun access. (Also a large portion of our suicides are done without guns.)
- I'd include aging as a major cause of death, even as a cause of death prior to age 75; although you don't die of old age before age 75, you can die of diseases caused by age long before you're in danger of dying of old age.
- "the decrease in US death rate from infectious disease since 1900 has been mostly pre 1940, ie before antibiotics, so what caused it?" -- Improvements in sanitation, I suspect. And just a general increase in wealth: there was that whole 'roaring 20s' thing, where the economy improved drastically. In 1900 we were a very poor nation, not at all a superpower, either militarily or economically, but in 1940 we were the largest economy in the world.
- Vaccination isn't even mandatory right now, it's only mandatory if you want to attend school. So I wouldn't consider it a loss of individual freedom, because a person can choose to go to private school or be home schooled and never be vaccinated.
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- I wouldn't put suicides under guns, because there's a higher suicide rate in Japan, it's just that they don't use guns to do it, so it might be unrelated to gun access. (Also a large portion of our suicides are done without guns.)
- I'd include aging as a major cause of death, even as a cause of death prior to age 75; although you don't die of old age before age 75, you can die of diseases caused by age long before you're in danger of dying of old age.
- "the decrease in US death rate from infectious disease since 1900 has been mostly pre 1940, ie before antibiotics, so what caused it?" -- Improvements in sanitation, I suspect. And just a general increase in wealth: there was that whole 'roaring 20s' thing, where the economy improved drastically. In 1900 we were a very poor nation, not at all a superpower, either militarily or economically, but in 1940 we were the largest economy in the world.
- Vaccination isn't even mandatory right now, it's only mandatory if you want to attend school. So I wouldn't consider it a loss of individual freedom, because a person can choose to go to private school or be home schooled and never be vaccinated.