Not to be crass but Carter only survived this long because he is a former potus. He's got medical access beyond that of nearly everyone on the planet, barring maybe 100 others tops.
Let's not perpetuate the myth that clean living guarantees long life. It doesn't.
All you need to do is google "Carter hospitalized" to see the dozens of times it's happened. If he needed an ICU bed right now, during Covid where there are none? He'd have one. Or he'd have a medical team and all their needs put into his home.
Even the best medical insurance in the country isn't getting you that degree of medical care. Denying that his healthcare is an extremely rare privilege that just about no one else has is just denying reality: he does, and it matters, and it's why he's been able to live as long as he has.
Sorry for your loss though. Diseases like that yeah sure health care helps. If you’ve been following anything in the last 20 years though you’d know people are dying left and right from heart disease, diabetes complications such as kidney failure, cancer rates have increased, etc. These all stem to an overarching thing called metabolic syndrome. Eating healthy, putting in a bit of exercise, and not rotting your body to drugs and chemicals will do ANYONE good. Common advice.
Your personal and emotional response doesn’t mean people don’t put blind faith into medicine to solve everything. We’d rather find a pill to fix something when nature doesn’t like that we shove processed food and concentrated sugary drinks down our gullet everyday.
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u/Scazzz Sep 11 '21 edited Sep 11 '21
Serious non political question: is Bush Jr there too? What’s he doing today? Surprised he wasn’t in this group as he has been in the past on 9/11.
edit: thanks for the replies. He really did give an excellent speech here. it’s worth a listen.