stopthatgirl7Sep 4, 2023

Upward of 20,000 Ukrainian amputees face trauma on a scale unseen since WWI

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) -- The small band of soldiers gather outside to share cigarettes and war stories, sometimes casually and sometimes with a degree of

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230904/p2g/00m/0in/038000c

Upward of 20,000 Ukrainian amputees face trauma on a scale unseen since WWI - The Mainichi

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) -- The small band of soldiers gather outside to share cigarettes and war stories, sometimes casually and sometimes with a degree of

The Mainichi
Show threadNightLilySep 4, 2023
I do not understand how they could publish something like this…
Show threadmacnielSep 4, 2023
why not?
Show threadNightLilySep 4, 2023
…ushmm.org/…/the-murder-of-people-with-disabiliti… cause it’s a blatantly untrue statement that is also just comparing suffering of people for no actual reason and doesn’t justify it’s own take on why what it’s said is actually true.
The Murder of People with Disabilities

At the beginning of WWII, people with mental or physical disabilities were targeted for murder in what the Nazis called the T-4, or "euthanasia," program.

Show threadtim_0475Sep 4, 2023
What exactly is the statement you are talking about? The title? I read it as “there haven’t been this many amputees in a country since ww1 and this is what they are going through”
Show threadslice1Sep 4, 2023
Even this is hard to believe given many other wars happened in between. E.g., the genocide in Rwanda (journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/jour…)
A Decade Later, How Much of Rwanda's Musculoskeletal Impairment Is Caused by the War in 1994 and by Related Violence?

Background In 1994 there was a horrific genocide in Rwanda following years of tension, resulting in the murder of at least 800,000 people. Although many people were injured in addition to those killed, no attempt has been made to assess the lasting burden of physical injuries related to these events. The aim of this study was to estimate the current burden of musculoskeletal impairment (MSI) attributable to the 1994 war and related violence. Methodology/Principal Findings A national cross-sectional survey of MSI was conducted in Rwanda. 105 clusters of 80 people were selected through probability proportionate to size sampling. Households within clusters were selected through compact segment sampling. Enumerated people answered a seven-question screening test to assess whether they might have an MSI. Those who were classed as potential cases in the screening test were examined and interviewed by a physiotherapist, using a standard protocol that recorded the site, nature, cause, and severity of the MSI. People with MSI due to trauma were asked whether this trauma occurred during the 1990–1994 war or during the episodes that preceded or followed this war. Out of 8,368 people enumerated, 6,757 were available for screening and examination (80.8%). 352 people were diagnosed with an MSI (prevalence = 5.2%, 95% CI = 4.5–5.9%). 106 cases of MSI (30.6%) were classified as resulting from trauma, based on self-report and the physiotherapist's assessment. Of these, 14 people (13.2%) reported that their trauma-related MSI occurred during the 1990–1994 war, and a further 7 (6.6%) that their trauma-related MSI occurred during the violent episodes that preceded and followed the war, giving an overall prevalence of trauma-related MSI related to the 1990–1994 war of 0.3% (95% CI = 0.2–0.4%). Conclusions/Significance A decade on, the overall prevalence of MSI was relatively high in Rwanda but few cases appeared to be the result of the 1994 war or related violence.

Show threadtim_0475
Good point, but here’s what the article says “Europe has experienced nothing like it since World War I, and the United States not since the Civil War.”
Sep 5, 2023 at 3:54pmWeb
Show threadslice1Sep 5, 2023
So the title is misleading clickbait that is posted for engagement and misinformation/propaganda?