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U.S. life expectancy falls for 2nd year in a row
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Posted on 04/07/2022 8:42:08 PM PDT by algore

Despite the availability of life-saving COVID-19 vaccines, so many people died in the second year of the pandemic in the U.S. that the nation's life expectancy dropped for a second year in a row last year, according to a new analysis.

The analysis of provisional government statistics found U.S. life expectancy fell by just under a half a year in 2021, adding to a dramatic plummet in life expectancy that occurred in 2020. Public health experts had hoped the vaccines would prevent another drop the following year.

"The finding that instead we had a horrible loss of life in 2021 that actually drove the life expectancy even lower than it was in 2020 is very disturbing," says Dr. Steven Woolf, a professor of population health and health equity at Virginia Commonwealth University, who help conduct the analysis. "It speaks to an extensive loss of life during 2021."

Many of the deaths occurred in people in the prime of their lives, Woolf says, and drove the overall U.S. life expectancy to fall to 76.6 years โ€” the lowest in at least 25 years.

"Shame on the U.S.," says Noreen Goldman, a demographer at Princeton University who wasn't involved in the research. "It just continues to boggle my mind how poorly we've come through this pandemic. And I find that disgraceful."

The 2021 drop came after U.S life expectancy plummeted in 2020, tumbling by almost two years โ€” the biggest one-year fall in U.S. life expectancy since at least World War II.

"The motivation for this study was to determine whether the horrible drop in life expectancy that we documented in 2020 resolved or rebounded in 2021 or whether there was a continued decline. Unfortunately, we did not find good news


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Shocking that NPR is reporting on this
1 posted on 04/07/2022 8:42:08 PM PDT by algore
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To: algore
From the article: the biggest one-year fall in U.S. life expectancy since at least World War II.

Anyone still doubt we're in a world war?

...Nuremberg II for all of them.

2 posted on 04/07/2022 8:44:57 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: algore

I knew this was going to happen once the RAT politicians legalized drugs and put all the criminals back on our streets.


3 posted on 04/07/2022 8:44:59 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump. Let's Go Brandon! FJB!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Must be all of that legal fentanyl coming across the border.


5 posted on 04/07/2022 8:47:39 PM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright coled day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: algore

Do these people think that we should live forever? You gotta die sometime.


6 posted on 04/07/2022 8:50:50 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: algore

Boomers are dying off.

It will continue for the next 15-20 years globally.


7 posted on 04/07/2022 8:52:16 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)
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To: algore

There’s a lot of shame to go around but don’t blame a country that is supposed to be run by the Constitution.


8 posted on 04/07/2022 8:52:43 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: algore

Shame on you America... for following the CDC’s advice?


9 posted on 04/07/2022 8:54:27 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: algore

And how many died because of the jab?


10 posted on 04/07/2022 8:55:39 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal is a blood-thirsty fascist yearning to be free of current societal constraints.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
And how many died because of the jab?

And how many died because of the lockdowns? Mental health issues, including suicides. Undetected and/or untreated health issues, because the either doctors were unavailable, or the patients were too afraid to venture from their homes. Restricted/unavailable exercise options. Poor eating habits (mainly fast-food restaurants were open; also people eating the frozen junk that they purchased during panic buying).

11 posted on 04/07/2022 9:02:43 PM PDT by CatOwner
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To: Blood of Tyrants

(Despite the availability of life-saving COVID-19 vaccines)

Oh boy ...


12 posted on 04/07/2022 9:04:11 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

And how many died because of the jab?


Only Faucists would attempt to call it anything else.


13 posted on 04/07/2022 9:04:43 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a โ€œconspiracy theoryโ€ in 2020 is now fact. ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป Ps 33:12)
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To: Blood of Tyrants; SunkenCiv

No one who did not take it, as far as I can tell

Sometimes I wonder if prior to the great flood there was advanced civilization and they were doing similar mRna experiments, but they were much further along.

Might explain lots of things...


14 posted on 04/07/2022 9:04:52 PM PDT by algore
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To: Jane Long

“It just continues to boggle my mind how poorly we’ve come through this pandemic. And I find that disgraceful.”) - from the article

It boggles my mind how many fools still think that the jab does no harm and saves everyone. ๐Ÿ™„


15 posted on 04/07/2022 9:09:38 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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725K+ extra deaths in the over 65 demographic will tend to put a dent in life expectancy numbers:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-from-covid-by-age-us/


16 posted on 04/07/2022 9:10:19 PM PDT by Drago
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To: SaveFerris

Boggles my mind, too.

They line up, like good lil ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘ ready to get their third/fourth ๐Ÿ’‰๐Ÿ’‰

๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ


17 posted on 04/07/2022 9:14:27 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a โ€œconspiracy theoryโ€ in 2020 is now fact. ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป Ps 33:12)
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To: CatOwner

Old people die.
Old people die globally just as much as locally.
The supply chain and labor supply “issues” will continue through the next decade.

If you had to bet a $1000 on inflation or deflation by 2032?

Which economic position would you take?

Mine is deflation, simply from a demographic position, there aren’t enough slaves to keep the global economy humming a long.


18 posted on 04/07/2022 9:15:16 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)
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To: algore

according to leftist websites its basically only unvaxed republicans dying.. and yet... when I visit both types of sites... it always seems to be the leftists ones that are sad because they lost another friend or relative, while here... narry a peep


19 posted on 04/07/2022 9:20:36 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Jane Long

That’s why I have no doubt that the Mark of the Beast will be wildly successful (as it were)

They will only have to pimp Satan’s anti-messiah and how all good Global Citizens are taking the economic mark.

I’m sure it will be all over TV ๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ“บ as “a good thing”.

Revelation 14:9-12
King James Version

9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,

10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:

11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2014%3A9-12&version=KJV


20 posted on 04/07/2022 9:24:02 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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