{"id":12228,"date":"2022-02-07T16:16:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T16:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=12228"},"modified":"2022-02-07T16:23:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T16:23:18","slug":"self-negating-headline-more-than-70-of-black-americans-dont-have-wills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2022\/02\/07\/self-negating-headline-more-than-70-of-black-americans-dont-have-wills\/","title":{"rendered":"Self negating headline: “More than 70% of Black Americans don’t have wills.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

67% of all American adults do not have a will.
\n71.5 % of Black Americans do not have a will.<\/p>\n

The real story is how similar this is, not the inflammatory headline. And the % with wills are growing rapidly.<\/p>\n

Overall, 33% of U.S. adults have a will, according to Caring.com\u2019s 2021 wills and estate planning survey. Meanwhile, 27.5% of Black Americans have one, up from 25.9% in 2020.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: More than 70% of Black Americans don’t have wills. Why plans are key<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

From Caring.com <\/a>itself, without being filtered by click bait headline writers – 2 out of 3 adults do not have a will – that’s the story:<\/p>\n

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The above news story from CNBC is a deliberate attempt at divisiveness to create emotional feelings around their story. Like most news reporting the headline is garbage click bait.<\/p>\n

That younger adults are, as a result of Covid hysteria, more likely to have added a will than older adults illustrates how fucked up public health communication has been. The odds of mortality in young adults are VASTLY lower than for those over age 50 or 60.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Surprisingly, the difference between different groups with a will and those without is very tiny and the gap is closing rapidly. But the CNBC headline chooses to spin this with an emotion-laden, inflammatory, click-bait headline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,30,39,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emotion","category-media-propaganda","category-fake-news","category-fictional-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}