Social media seems to be laughing its ass off about this tragedy, is it because the folks at burning man are perceived as frivolous hippies or something? Everyone I’ve ever met who was a regular burning man attendee has been a solid human being with strong morals, personally and financially responsible, a career. Upstanding members of society for sure. I guess all some people know is the sensationalized drugs and sex. A person died. This is a tragedy for an event that brings positivity into the world. Kind of annoyed.

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    1 year ago

    Outside the event includes people in their 90s dying of old age in hospitals

    Generally the demographic that attends burning man skews younger which is inherently less likely to die

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      1 year ago

      I included a link to the real stats which you didn’t check and just with people up to their 40s the mortality rate is high enough that you would expect more people to die during that week…

      Heck, let’s look at the stats for 2019 so COVID isn’t taken in consideration (pdf warning):

      https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db395-H.pdf

      The important table:

      Every group starting with the 25-34 y.o. has a mortality rate higher than what has been seen at Burning Man this year, 15-24 is at 49/70k/year so it’s pretty much par with the current death rate at the festival, so unless all attendees are 24 or less then they’re better off than the general population that didn’t attend.