[Maru]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

There are some states where infant mortality rates are nearly 1 in 100 which is as bad as some literally starving third world nations.

Where in the world did you hear that? O_o The one I found says X in 1000... not 1 in 100.

Infant mortality rate in the United States as of 2017, by state (deaths per 1,000 live births)*
https://www.statista.com/statistics/...thnicity-2011/

Infant Mortality Rate (Deaths per 1,000 Live Births)
https://www.kff.org/other/state-indi...2:%22asc%22%7D

There is some serious misinformation in this thread, but I can't really fault anyone here for picking up on what they hear because it sounds like you guys have to deal with some of the same filters we deal with daily in terms of outside information coming in. I would trust you guys for UK information before I would trust my own research just because I know how there's always a skew to things, so you really don't get an accurate picture but either someone's opinion or an informal narrative of things... when the Tohoku earthquake happened in Japan, English news was not just worthless but unreliable... I followed the news through Japanese media sources and that was pretty much the only way I knew whether or not my close friends there would be irradiated or not.

Also, for Texas, it is one of the most easiest places to live. You can literally buy so much land and housing for dirt cheap. You don't need 5 PhD's to live here, and in many cases not even a college education and medical is pretty affordable, even out of pocket. We don't have income tax either and our state keeps a budget and we have a strong economy to boot. When we had Hurricane Harvey, Houston was almost entirely inundated, but Texas picked up a lot of the bill to pay back FEMA (Federal disaster relief)...

The US is far from a sh1thole and our healthcare is some of the best in the world (I wouldn't say the best because I'm not an encyclopedia ). Keeping in mind too the private insurance we pay and for all the charities that funnel money through the system, that allows for much of the research that has done good in many countries across the world... that's not even up for debate. I mean Trump sucks and Congress sucks, but much of the country is doing much better economically speaking even without their intervention. (Edit) We've had to manage for decades now one way or another, so it's not like America isn't resilient.