US life expectancy drops for second straight year

[ProudVirgin69]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04/07/life-expectancy-covid/

Life expectancy in the United States, which declined dramatically in 2020 as the coronavirus slammed into the country, continued to go down in 2021, according to a new analysis that shows the United States faring worse during the pandemic than 19 other wealthy countries — and failing to see a life expectancy rebound despite the arrival of effective vaccines.
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The study, written by public health experts in Colorado, Virginia and D.C. and posted online but not yet peer-reviewed, found that the continued decline in life expectancy in 2021 came largely among White Americans.
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Across all groups, life expectancy dropped to 76.60 years in 2021. That figure compares with 76.99 in 2020 and 78.86 in 2019. These are historically unusual drops.

Brutal if true  China has a greater life expectancy than the US these days

Is this the beginning of the end of the US Empire?

[Thin Lizzy]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04/07/life-expectancy-covid/

Brutal if true  China has a greater life expectancy than the US these days

Is this the beginning of the end of the US Empire?

Obviously, obesity is a large contributing factor and was responsible for most of the Covid hospitalizations but for some reason none of our so-called healthcare officials and experts addressed this during the pandemic, as if a shot in the arm from Pfizer is gonna turn a 300 pound diabetic into a fit, healthy person.

[OAK]

This is terrible.

Time to get your heads out of the sand antivaxxers!

🙁

[Rambone]

Awesome news! I’ve always accepted social security not being around when I’m 65+, but things are looking fantastic. Thanks to all you sick fatties out there. Oh and also the “vaccine” bahahhaa

[Flexacon]

This is terrible.

Time to get your heads out of the sand pro fat acceptance movement!

🙁

Fixed

Also lower life expectancy isn't necessarily a bad thing...

[ProudVirgin69]

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Also lower life expectancy isn't necessarily a bad thing...

please, elaborate.

[Moontrane]

Obviously, obesity is a large contributing factor and was responsible for most of the Covid hospitalizations but for some reason none of our so-called healthcare officials and experts addressed this during the pandemic, as if a shot in the arm from Pfizer is gonna turn a 300 pound diabetic into a fit, healthy person.

From 1960 - 2010 (50 years!) 40% of us have been overweight.  Over the past ten years it's nearly doubled to 73%. 

Obesity has more than tripled since 1960.  We're doing it to ourselves.  I miss the early morning Jack LaLanne show from my childhood.

[Flexacon]

please, elaborate.

Fewer pant shitters

But in short it means a healthier economy.

[GymnJuice]

This is almost completely due to obesity. Our society has eroded personal responsibility to the point where average citizens need the nanny state to protect them from food.

[wes]

despite the arrival of effective vaccines
 

[Matt]

Across all groups, life expectancy dropped to 76.60 years in 2021. That figure compares with 76.99 in 2020 and 78.86 in 2019. These are historically unusual drops.

Speaking mathematically here, strictly:

There is NO POSSIBLE WAY - underline that in neon - that two lifespan years could have been lost from the virus.

That's two years being taken off a full lifespan. In fact, I don't even want to break out the math here because no one will understand it.

But in a nutshell:

Even a million people dying at 84 instead of 86 is not going reduce EVERYONE'S lifespan by two years.

The virus BARELY takes two years off everyone who gets it, on average, and not everyone - by far not everyone - has even gotten it so far.

So something else is happening. Record drug overdose deaths, for starters.

[OAK]

This is almost completely due to obesity. Our society has eroded personal responsibility to the point where average citizens need the nanny state to protect them from food.

Obesity has been a problem for decades.

The 2 year drop is solely due to COVID. It lines up perfectly.

COVID is now the third leading cause of death.

[OAK]

The virus BARELY takes two years off everyone who gets it, on average, and not everyone - by far not everyone - has even gotten it so far.

As I've stated to you MANY times, what you are saying here is total nonsense.

This article proves that.

[ProudVirgin69]

From 1960 - 2010 (50 years!) 40% of us have been overweight.  Over the past ten years it's nearly doubled to 73%. 

Obesity has more than tripled since 1960.  We're doing it to ourselves.  I miss the early morning Jack LaLanne show from my childhood.

i think its being done to us.  has our self-control decreased this much in only ten years?  I dont think so, i think its a combo of sedentary jobs, junk food being pushed in our faces, and the effects of all the plastics and other endocrine disruptors in our environment.

[Sissysquats]

The way shits going I’m not sure I want to see 80

[GymnJuice]

Obesity has been a problem for decades.

The 2 year drop is solely due to COVID. It lines up perfectly.

COVID is now the third leading cause of death.

And covid affects the obese more than the fit... 

Really everything affects the obese more than the fit. Diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, you name it.

[OAK]

And covid affects the obese more than the fit... 

Really everything affects the obese more than the fit. Diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, you name it.

True.

But if it weren’t for COVID these people would still be alive.

[ProudVirgin69]

And covid affects the obese more than the fit... 

Really everything affects the obese more than the fit. Diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, you name it.

Over half the US is obese, you can’t put that toothpaste in the tube.  Taking a “Survival of the Fittest” approach will cause this nation to collapse.  Like it or not, we have to accommodate the fatties

[Flexacon]

Over half the US is obese, you can’t put that toothpaste in the tube.  Taking a “Survival of the Fittest” approach will cause this nation to collapse. Like it or not, we have to accommodate the fatties

This is true, but we should have a fat tax and fat shaming should be taught in schools.

[AbrahamG]

Over half the US is obese, you can’t put that toothpaste in the tube.  Taking a “Survival of the Fittest” approach will cause this nation to collapse.  Like it or not, we have to accommodate the fatties

That, and I've always enjoyed fucking the fatties with massive titties.  Except during Ramadan. 

[POB]

This is terrible.

Time to get your heads out of the sand antivaxxers!

🙁

Your act is tired it’s over been over…

[G_Thang]

Shots to young healthy adults first vs elderly and 2-4 comids 2 years straight.  How could SSI miss that? 

[Thin Lizzy]

Your act is tired it’s over been over…

He still thinks it’s 2005 when trolls were somewhat new and people didn’t know they were nothing happening losers who spend the day sitting in their underwear.

I’ve had him on ignore for months.

[SF1900]

If BHANKS passes, I’m wondering how this will influence the life expectancy for all of the USA!

[IroNat]

Awesome news! I’ve always accepted social security not being around when I’m 65+, but things are looking fantastic. Thanks to all you sick fatties out there. Oh and also the “vaccine” bahahhaa

You are a glass half-full guy.

Awesome, bro.