A Boring Dystopia

15424 readers

561 users here now

Pictures, Videos, Articles showing just how boring it is to live in a dystopic society, or with signs of a dystopic society.

Rules (Subject to Change)

--Be a Decent Human Being

--Posting news articles: include the source name and exact title from article in your post title

--If a picture is just a screenshot of an article, link the article

--If a video's content isn't clear from title, write a short summary so people know what it's about.

--Posts must have something to do with the topic

--Zero tolerance for Racism/Sexism/Ableism/etc.

--No NSFW content

--Abide by the rules of lemmy.world

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

givesomefucks@lemmy.world

116

US committee is reconsidering all vaccine recommendations (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

14 comments fedilink hide all child comments

The current ACIP members “clearly see even the act of recommending a vaccine, which is the charge of the committee for the last 60 years, as infringing on parental freedom”, Schwartz said. That’s akin to suggesting that the dietary guidelines issued last week infringe on the freedom to choose which food to eat, he said.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I never thought we'd march back up the demographic transition but here we are. Infant mortality is one of the key drivers

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's quite fascinating. People often make a statistic that "in x year, the average lifespan was 50-60" when in reality it was offset by infant mortality. I actually tried it myself with my own family- the average lifespan was 60, but the only people to die before 60 died before their first birthday, the other died two months after

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

yup. when i was doing... fuck i can't remember not enough coffee yet but the useful statistic was "life expectancy at age 20" because early mortality skewed that so much. we, uh, have not made as much progress on life expectancy at age 20 as you'd hope.