Ordinary Banana

article that prompted the previous, btw. it's good https://twitter.com/theshrillest/status/711944497622462464 …

the numbers on gun deaths compared to deaths by hospital-acquired infection are kind of stunning, I thought. 11,000 to 75,000 @theshrillest

@schakalsynthetc could deaths from treating "treatable" illnesses with woo really even approach 75,000 a year?

@literalbanana well, there's the whole can of worms gathering and reporting these kinds of numbers is always going to open

@literalbanana I mean, for one it's safe to assume *most* deaths are heavily overdetermined, so any figure will be adjusted for that

@schakalsynthetc yup and it doesn't account for how awful it is to be in a hospital or other quality of life stuff

@literalbanana hm. btw, just occured to me: the hot trend lately has been toward increasingly huge centralized hospital complexes