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Thanks.

This data is from the USA, it would be interesting to compare to countries with free healthcare.

It would also be interesting to see what it's like in countries with different news coverage styles. Fear is a tactic used in the US to keep eyes glued to new media.

In what countries doesn't the media thrive off fear and sensation?

All other countries seem to do this less than the USA. Degree varies of course.

Even Russia, China, and North Korea?

Even Syria, Turkey, Qatar, Nigeria?

>> To be clear, this does not demonstrate that Covid infection causes mental illness from a neurological perspective.

> It would also be interesting to see what it's like in countries with different news coverage styles. Fear is a tactic used in the US to keep eyes glued to new media.

I think that's likely a non-significant part of it. As the saying goes, "Perception is reality" (which is demonstrated in phenomena like the placebo effect, or widespread beliefs in theories like QAnon or RussiaGate) - if so, it shouldn't be terribly surprising that a person who subjects their mind to large quantities of subjective "Coronavirus!!!!!!!" "journalism" would have a genuinely different reaction than that of someone who only exposed their mind to objective statistics.

And those that didn't have an active civil rights movement erupting in the midst of it.

You're being downvoted, but I think that's a reasonable point... I don't live in the USA, but given everything that's going on there, I would be pretty stressed if I did.

What... Obamacare was supposed to fix all of the USA healthcare problems.

Dead.

Indeed, but it was substantially reduced from the original vision.

Classic republican move: defund something until it fails, and then go, "See? It was doomed to fail anyway. Now privatize or kill it."

Hyperbole is against the rules here. You should refer to it as tax funded healthcare.

As a note I'm not against healthcare reform, but it's against the HN rules.

Like how the current system is called casino funded healthcare?

Ironically the US already has tax funded healthcare, but only the most active voting block (old people) receive it.

Military, too.

And poor people through Medicaid and CHIP.

Native Americans have access to a full blown government hospital system not unlike UK's NHS.

In fact, the US has three times as many government-run hospital systems than most countries, and several times the number of government insurance programs. That's part of the problem. :)

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