Comment on The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home.

vane@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Great news, traffic deaths are no more because most victims die in the hospital instead of at the site of the accident. Fear hospitals, not traffic.

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  • vane@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    I think that’s transport accidents 2.3%. I approve the OP statement that going to work when you can do it at home is dumb. but doubt about transport death.

    Source: ourworldindata.org/causes-of-death-treemap

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    • andallthat@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Might not be the biggest risk to your life but it’s 2.3% out of 55 Millions death (so, just to put things into perspective, we’re talking 1.6M deaths per year).

      Besides, the risk is not only death directly in an accident. For those 33% who died from heart diseases: stress is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and the paper does mention specifically work stress as a risk factor

      The risk of a cardiovascular event was higher in patients with a history of social isolation (OR, 2.47), marital stress (OR, 2.28), work stress (OR, 3.2), childhood abuse (OR, 2.78), or trauma (OR, 2.67).

      Again not all of it will be due to commuting to work, but raising your stress levels by having you commute needlessly in traffic is not good for your health.

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    • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Somehow my app won’t let me paste a link, sorry. But for most of your working years, you’re most likely to die by unintional injury:

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      And that’s just death that we’re talking about. ‘Dangerous’ implies all harm, not just death.

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      • vane@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        anyways from report you found I don’t know what’s this table about because I don’t have time to read it all, it’s

        “Unintentional injuries” is a category that reflects many different causes of death. Three causes (poisonings/overdoses, falls, and motor vehicle accidents) account for more than 90% of deaths due to unintentional injuries. Overall, poisonings/overdoses accounted for 43.6% of these deaths

        source: www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/…/2023-nhqdr-rev.pdf
        Page 35

        But then I went to cdc and they’re saying Heart Disease is still major cause of death.
        …cdc.gov/…/D176;jsessionid=D7E7DDE4D2706B2EE61B93…

        So how the fuck they figure out this table I have no idea.

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      • vane@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        if you’re <5 years old. Dude how you learned to type in that age ?

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