Peter Attia on Energy

If you want perspective on how how people <35 die in the US, relative to COVID, take a look. It would be nice if we placed a proportionate amount of societal energy into preserving life via prevention of MV acc, ODs, homicide, suicide, & drownings (not shown but 12x more for <5)

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Hook: Leads with a number
Structure: Hook
Style: Conversational paragraphs at a steady pace.
Tone: concrete, corporate
Mechanisms: Specificity
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