There are all kinds of diseases that can cause death but in the U.S. obesity, tobacco, and alcohol put together have roughly nine hundred thousand deaths per year and we get scared of a disease that barely caused four thousand deaths. This cartoon can be seen anywhere on the internet, and had a bunch of controversy towards it, it shows a man in a shirt that says “USA” and he is holding three things: a beer or a form of alcohol, a greasy hamburger meal, and a cigarette. For some of us, seeing alcohol, greasy foods and even cigarettes being smoked, is just a way we see life today as a normal standard of living in America because we see this everyday whether we care that it kills us more than diseases actually do. Even though we don’t seem to care about the health of the people in America, we are scared to be killed by such things like the Ebola outbreak. The cartoon uses the rhetorical strategy of
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While these are large numbers, the man in the cartoon only seems concerned about one thing, the Ebola outbreak. This outbreak has around four thousand deaths to its name. From Pulse.com it states that, “Liberia, in fact, was proclaimed Ebola-free by May 2015, with a total of 4,806 deaths during the outbreak.” If you look at all of these numbers side by side, you can see a giant difference in the vast numbers of which many people don’t pay attention to verses one of the comparatively small numbers that many people think are more important. They think that a disease overseas is much more dangerous than eating, smoking or drinking ourselves to death, when in fact it's quite the opposite. Jack Ohman contrasts the arguments by showing that we do not care for all these other diseases that are within our country but once a foreign disease comes into our country we start to panic even though this outbreak was contained and
While these are large numbers, the man in the cartoon only seems concerned about one thing, the Ebola outbreak. This outbreak has around four thousand deaths to its name. From Pulse.com it states that, “Liberia, in fact, was proclaimed Ebola-free by May 2015, with a total of 4,806 deaths during the outbreak.” If you look at all of these numbers side by side, you can see a giant difference in the vast numbers of which many people don’t pay attention to verses one of the comparatively small numbers that many people think are more important. They think that a disease overseas is much more dangerous than eating, smoking or drinking ourselves to death, when in fact it's quite the opposite. Jack Ohman contrasts the arguments by showing that we do not care for all these other diseases that are within our country but once a foreign disease comes into our country we start to panic even though this outbreak was contained and