People are also spending the same share of their budget on beef as before the pandemic/inflation spike. I also suspect that people on Reddit might be more price-sensitive than average even after accounting for income.
There is still some potential to understate current excess mortality even using a model based on 2015-2019 rates, but given the magnitude of the decrease the takeaway (mortality is much, much lower than peak pandemic and close to baseline) likely wouldn't change.
Indeed we've been making this argument for almost a decade now: laborcenter.berkeley.edu/the-mayor-of...
People will point to something and say “see voting doesn’t do anything” and it’s literally just the consequences of Republicans winning elections
Bike lanes are not, in fact, things that virtually nobody is opposed to.
Honestly, a bunch of them are probably still on their parents' health insurance and don't even realize that's because of the ACA.
Needing mental health treatment is downstream from living in a world that fucking hates trans people.
It's the same as saying there's no gender pay gap control for occupation. When occupation is clearly influenced by societal gender biases. Or even dumber, that cancer doesn't cause mortality after you control for getting chemotherapy.
We need to take away SPSS from medical doctors until they can show that they'd pass an undergrad statistics course. You can't control for something downstream of the treatment and say the treatment has no effect. This is like a week 1 concept in any causal methods course.
Truly one of the few perks of being a trans woman.