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  • The rate is higher because we can “catch” more cases with better diagnosis.

    Imagine machine that is throwing 100 balls per second. Another machine that can catch 10 balls per second. You catch 10 balls.

    Now newer machine can catch 20, and newer can catch 50.

    Does that mean the number of thrown balls is higher? No. It just means we have machines better at caching them. The same goes for any illness, autism, schizophrenia, cancer, depression…

    Some ilnesses we are better at curing, does that mean the the illness is getting weaker?



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    2 months ago

    Although, being gravely negative comes with its own additional issues like worrying about possible negative future that in 99% of cases does not happen. We have one overly negative person in the family and it is wearing them down, all is bad, other people do [put anything that you’d think is absolutely fine] better/differently so we must be doing it wrong and it will fall/catch on fire/explode. Being positively realistic is IMHO the best path.

    But what do I know, maybe that is just the positive side of me talking and some train really derails and hits me in my office in 4th floor.