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#56 AMERICANS BEHAVE LIKE A BULL IN A CHINA SHOP · FROM THE INSIDE OUT by BETH ARNOLD

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Americans behave like a bull in a China shop when they call Denmark socialist.
• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: It is insulting and misinformation and only illustrates your ignorance.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: Denmark has half the child mortality of the US.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_00: Here's why and it is not about vaccines.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: This post is a reaction to a post written by Jonathan Cohn.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: Denmark is not socialist.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: That is misinformation.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: As a Danish citizen residing in Denmark, I'm so tired of insulting claims from Americans.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: Denmark is not socialist.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_00: Denmark is not North Korea.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: If Denmark is socialist, then all religious people are socialist, regardless of whether they call themselves Christians, Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus or something else.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: We have more to spend after tax than Americans, and we don't pay for health care or education.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: It is true that we in Denmark pay high taxes, but we also have a higher average income, and after tax we have the same disposal income as American.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_00: And we do not pay to see a doctor, to be treated in hospital or for education at either primary or university level.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: All of this is free in the Nordic countries, including Denmark.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: In the United States, on the other hand, people live in constant fear of getting sick, being fired, and thus losing everything.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: Denmark's independent institution versions American political interference.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: My daughter is now an adult, so I'm not familiar with how much we vaccinate in Denmark now.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: But she got the vaccinations recommended as a child.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: I trust our authorities because unlike the US, Denmark has a strong, credible and independent institutions that politicians have no influence over.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_00: I am also not aware of how much vaccination is done in the US.
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  SPEAKER_00: Child mortality The United States has twice the mortality rate of Denmark.
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  SPEAKER_00: The infant mortality rate in Denmark for children under one year of age is approximately two point six deaths per thousand births in two thousand twenty four.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the United States is five point three deaths per thousand births in 2024.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: The infant mortality rate in Denmark for children under five years of age is approximately three point four deaths per thousand births in 2023.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the US the figure is approximately seven deaths per thousand births in 2020.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_00: That is twice as high.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when RFK junior wants to reduce your vaccination schedule to the Danish level, perhaps you should ask yourself why does Denmark have half the infant mortality rate of the United States despite fewer vaccines?
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  SPEAKER_00: The answer is not that we vaccinate less.
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  SPEAKER_00: The answer is that we have a coherent healthcare system where all pregnant women receive maternity care, all children receive health care, and where parents do not fear losing their jobs and insurance if they become ill.
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  SPEAKER_00: Vaccines are just a small piece of a much bigger puzzle.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mars shootings The United States has had one thousand seven hundred times more than Denmark in ten years.
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  SPEAKER_00: If we take something as crazy as your gun loss and mentality around firearms and compare mass shootings in just the last ten years, over a ten year period twenty fourteen to twenty twenty four, the difference is dramatic.
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  SPEAKER_00: Denmark approximately three to four mass shootings during the whole period.
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  SPEAKER_00: twenty fifteen Copenhagen shootings at Kutun and the Great Synagogue Freekild twenty sixteen gang related shooting mentioned as the last before Fields two thousand twenty two Fields shopping mall Freekild.
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  SPEAKER_00: United States a total of five thousand one hundred and eighty eight mass shootings from twenty fourteen to twenty twenty four.
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  SPEAKER_00: Annual distribution two thousand fourteen two hundred and seventy two thousand fifteen to twenty sixteen rising to three hundred and eighty three, two thousand seventeen, three hundred and forty seven, two thousand eighteen to twenty nineteen, rising to four hundred and fourteen, two thousand twenty, six hundred and ten, two thousand twenty one, six hundred and eighty nine, two thousand twenty two, six hundred and forty four, two thousand twenty three, six hundred and fifty nine, two thousand twenty four, five hundred and three Mars shootings.
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  SPEAKER_00: This means that the United States has had about one thousand seven hundred times more mass shootings than Denmark over the past ten years, or an average of more than one mass shooting per day compared to Denmark's average of less than one per year.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_00: It is important to know that mass shootings are very rare in Scandinavia, which makes Denmark's figure exceptionally low compared to the epidemic levels in the US.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I say well so common sense.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_00: I would never consider living in the United States.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_00: So when I'm asked whether as a Dane I would like to live in the United States compared to living in Denmark, the answer is very clear.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: I would not even consider it.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_00: The United States threatens us.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_00: We were friends now only on the surface.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_00: Compared to Denmark and the Nordic countries, the United States is a warlike nation.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_00: You call yourselves Christians and start lecturing us in Europe on how to live our lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: At the same time you threaten us with all kinds of unpleasanties.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_00: We were once friends, now we are only friends on the surface.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_00: Your president constantly threatens to invade slash steal slash buy Greenland, and because of your weapons and attitude, we have to put up with it.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_00: This brings us back to the so called socialist.
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  SPEAKER_00: What you call socialist we call charity.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_00: It is written in the book you claim to live by.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your vice president even squeezed in a meeting with a dying man just because he well what else did he want other than impose his own selfish desires on a dying man?
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_00: And perhaps obtain some kind of blessing or manipulate the Catholic population ahead of an upcoming election.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_00: Americans are not charitable and do not live by the book you claim to live by.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Denmark everyone has a chance to become something.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everyone has a chance to get a good education.
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  SPEAKER_00: The only thing required is that you attend school and do your homework.
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  SPEAKER_00: No matter how poor your parents are, you can go to a good school, high school and on to university.
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  SPEAKER_00: The only limitation is your own abilities and effort in terms of homework, etc.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_00: Free health care for all the same treatment regardless of income.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_00: In Denmark, everyone is entitled to treatment at hospitals, doctors, etc.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_00: Regardless of income, it is free and you receive the same treatment.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_00: However, if you have the money, you can also go to a private hospital, but this is mostly for sports injuries and cosmetic surgery.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_00: In Denmark, you cannot have cosmetic surgery at a public hospital, which is reasonable.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_00: No one needs silicon breasts or Frankenstein faces.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_00: Taxes secure the future, not vulgar weddings in Venice.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_00: Stop calling Denmark socialist.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_00: We have a royal family, which is definitely not socialist.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_00: We also have rich people, not basis rich, but who the hell needs a vulgar wedding in Venice when children in the US can't even go to a decent school?
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe he should pay a little tax instead, so that the US can benefit from a skilled workforce in the future.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_00: That's what taxes do.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_00: They secure the future of a country.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_00: A well educated and healthy population is the foundation of a country's long term development and prosperity.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_00: Here are the most important effects Economic Development Higher Protivity.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_00: Educated workers are more efficient and can solve complex problems.
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  SPEAKER_00: Innovation and competitiveness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stronger education systems promote research, technological development and the knowledge economy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Economic growth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Investments in human capital typically yield higher returns than physical capital in the long term.
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  SPEAKER_00: Higher incomes, better education leads to higher wages and living standards.
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  SPEAKER_00: Health benefits.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lower health care costs prevents and reduces treatment costs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Longer working life, healthy people can work longer and contribute more to society.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lower child and maternal mortality.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_00: As we saw in our previous discussion, Denmark's law figures versus USA.
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  SPEAKER_00: Better equality, better quality of life, fewer years lived with illness and disability.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_00: Social effects less inequality.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_00: Education is historically the stronger social elevator, lower crime, stronger correlation between education and law abiding behavior, greater social cohesion, shared values and democratic participation.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_00: Better parenting skills, educated parents invest more in their children's development.
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  SPEAKER_00: Demographic advantages lower birth rates.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_00: Educated women have fewer children but invest more in each child.
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  SPEAKER_00: Later childbirth, better timing in relation to career instability, less population pressure, more sustainable population development.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_00: Political stability, stronger democracy, educated citizens participate more in democracy, better institutions, competent civil service, and less corruption.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_00: Peaceful development.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_00: Education reduces the risk of conflict.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_00: Concrete examples South Korea Massive investment in education and health transformed the country from poverty to high income in fifty years.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_00: Scandinavia The combination of universal education and healthcare created some of the world's most prosperous and equal societies.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_00: Singapore strategic focus on human capital turned a small island state into a global financial hub.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_00: Lack of investment leads to a negative spiral and possible civil war.
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  SPEAKER_00: Long term effects A well educated and healthy population creates a positive spiral.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_00: Better education, higher incomes, better health, more productivity, more resources for education and health.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_00: Conversely, lack of investment in human capital creates a negative spiral, as seen in parts of the United States with poor access to education and health, leading to shorter life expectancy, lower social mobility, and increased inequality.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_00: I don't really understand how the US dares to continue down this path, where inequality is growing ever greater with all the weapons in circulation in the country.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_00: If you are not careful, it will end in a spectacular civil war.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_00: Charity versus modern slavery So what you call socialism, we call an investment in the future and charity, and over fifty percent of the Danish population is not even a member of a church.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_00: What do you call the United States?
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_00: In any case, not everyone has equal opportunities.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_00: I call it modern slavery, when people despite having several jobs cannot even afford to go to the doctor or give their children a good education.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, we have fewer vaccines on the schedule, but do you know what else we have?
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_00: Half the infant mortality rate of yours?
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_00: So maybe, just maybe.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_00: Denmark's success is not about fewer vaccines, but about a completely different social system with respect for humans and view of humanity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.