Quiz question: how many people where killed by trans people? Close to zero. So why are people afraid of trans people? On the other hand: people who changed gender somewhere in the course of their lives have all the more reason to be afraid of people who are afraid of them: Dozens of transgender and non-binary people get killed a year. In America alone. Hundreds more are beaten. Thousands more are being discriminated against.
Here's a list of reasons The People (meaning stupid, white conservatives) are afraid of and the respective number of people that actually die from said reasons, worldwide:
Transgenderism: zero (Not counting suicides amongst them and the killing of transgenders)
Homosexuality: zero (Not counting gay people being murdered because they are gay)
Bisexuality: zero
Having dark skin: zero (It's a misconception that people with dark skin are dangerous because they have dark skin)
Sharks: eight (approximately on average a year. Worldwide)
Wearing facemasks: three. Maybe. Tops.
Vaccins: twenty. (Based on the three people in America who most likely died because of an anti-covid vaccin)
Communism: zero ('Communism' doesn't kill people, some communists kill people)
Socialism: zero (See above)
Islam: zero (See above)
Islam: zero (See above)
Antifa: ten (No hard figures can be found but it's possible that people got killed in 'antifa' riots)
Terrorism: 16,000 (including 300+ by white, rightwing extremists. In America alone)
Now that we have established that the reasons Trump-supporters, racists, anti-vaxxers, covidiots and other dumb people are afraid are really not that lethal, let's look at what dóes kill people. Approximately and worldwide:
Heart disease: 12 million
Hunger: 8,5 million
Stroke: 5 million
Obesity: 4,5 million
COPD: 2,5 million
Covid-19: 2,2 million
Respiratory infections: 2 million
Flu: 650,000
Malaria: 600,000
With Covid-19 being the number one cause of death in America and number three in Europe, one can't help to wonder: why are conservatives more afraid of wearing a facemask (three deaths a year) than they are of catching Covid-19 (over 2 million deaths a year)?
Here's an interesting article for those who want to learn a bit more.
You may have noticed that death from overweight (obesity) is on the rise and even kills more people than the coronavirus does. Amongst children obesity surpassed starvation in the numbers killed. While a third of all produced food is destroyed instead of eaten.
Perhaps we shouldn't worry about wars (they didn't even make it into the top ten of causes of death!) and not even Covid-19, although it ranks number five. Perhaps we should worry about the food lobby putting way too much sugar, fat and salt in our food.
Besides all that's mentioned: what is really the most dangerous thing we can do? I'll give you a second to think about that.
The answer is: being born. You see, everyobody who does that eventually dies.
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2 comments:
"my" in first sentence is to be read as "by."
It is pretty revolting that the poor Big White Shark is once again pictured as the great killer of humans.
It is not.
Perpetuating myths like that makes anyone who does so co-responsible for Big Whites killed by misguided humans, imo.
Exactly my point: the Great White is not the problem. Humans are.
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