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Doubt about death
Source: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6919a4.htm
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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I think that's transport accidents 2.3%. I agree the OP statement that going to work when you can do it at home is dumb, but doubt about transport death.
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/causes-of-death-treemap
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. Youre in danger of non lethal injury, too.
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
source: https://www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2023-nhqdr-rev.pdf
Page 35
But then I went to cdc and they're saying Heart Disease is still major cause of death.
https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/datarequest/D176;jsessionid=D7E7DDE4D2706B2EE61B93C9ADAF
So how the fuck they figure out this table I have no idea.
I figured out how to get this shit from cdc - 2024 group 25-34 - mostly drug abuse
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Great website by the way. Clap for CDC to provide this kind of data.
According to what you sent it's if you're <5 years old. Dude how you learned to type in that age ?
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
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 even if you don't die in a car crash.