And not just because of the coronavirus:
Plotting life expectancy in the United States against that of other wealthy countries reveals three dark insights: Our life spans lag behind those of our peers; our life expectancy was already more or less flat, not growing; and most other countries bounced back from covid-19 in the second year of the pandemic, while we went into further decline...Unless the country changes course, and soon, the structural conditions responsible for the shorter lives and poorer health of Americans will continue to claim lives and weaken the country. It is not just the old who pay the price. Young and middle-aged Americans are now more likely to die in the prime of their lives, devastating families and communities and taking a hard toll on our economic productivity. Even more disturbing, in a change never recorded in the past century, the probability that children and adolescents will live to age 20 is now decreasing.
The reasons for the decline are discussed at The Washington Post.
BUT with how bleak everything is now, it'll FEEL longer.
ReplyDeleteAmerica is a Death Cult anyway so this ought to suit those in charge pretty well. They've used a promise of a better afterlife and the American dream to dupe most of the country into over leveraging themselves financially until they are wage slaves. Those that don't uphold the righteouse path of work until you die are pushed aside as obstacles that barely slow the rich on their way to reach out and destroy the moon then mars.
ReplyDeleteSuspect this reflects polarization of state politics: red states diverging from blue states. Louisiana's public health is more like Jamaica's; Massachusetts, Sweden.
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