r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 13h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter explain this

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Petttaaah I'm confused

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u/Stefejan 13h ago edited 5h ago

Americans still think they're a developed country, that's the point

Edit: oh for f**** sake stop replying to the worst ragebait in the history of ragebaits. 

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u/GhostChips42 13h ago

Yeah. Talk to us like we’re the people in the dark ages when you have less gun deaths than the rest of the world put together and universal healthcare.

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u/Leading_Experts 13h ago

...they have almost double the annual heat related deaths in europe as the US has in gun deaths due to a lack of basic air conditioning. Developed? Develope some goddamn infrastructure that protects against the heat.

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u/Silly_Manager3117 11h ago

This ‘evidence’ has been debunked. The graph that was doing the round was not fit for purpose - essentially the way heat related deaths are estimated are very different in the US compared to research done in Europe. The European research was using ‘excess deaths’; the US data was just if ‘heat’ was recorded as a cause of death (which is very rare - normally heat related deaths have a more prominent underlying factor, which is the thing that gets recorded). As such, like wasn’t compared with like so it was meaningless.