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America Was in an Early-Death Crisis Long Before COVID
The Atlantic ^ | 21 Jul, 2022 | Ed Yong

Posted on 07/23/2022 8:23:58 PM PDT by anthropocene_x

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1 posted on 07/23/2022 8:23:58 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
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To: anthropocene_x

This totally explains why post-vaxxed 40% increase in all cause deaths of 18-64 year olds in the last 6 months of 2021. /s


2 posted on 07/23/2022 8:28:00 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: anthropocene_x

This appears to have begun around the time Anthony Fauci joined NIAID!


3 posted on 07/23/2022 8:32:55 PM PDT by 100%FEDUP (I'm seeing RED!)
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To: anthropocene_x

Since the 1970s the US has had an ever present and debilitating drug problem. How many of those excess deaths were caused by overdose?


4 posted on 07/23/2022 8:34:23 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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Half the country is morbidly obese, I assume that has something to do with it.


5 posted on 07/23/2022 8:35:18 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: anthropocene_x

Don’t ignore medical malpractice.


6 posted on 07/23/2022 8:37:02 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: escapefromboston

Is it possible that white Americans and black Americans may be genetically inferior compared to their European and African counterparts respectively? They seem to have a proclivity for exceptionally bad habits (drugs, crime) and in much poor health (notice all the obesity, which you don’t see in Europe and Africa).


7 posted on 07/23/2022 8:48:13 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: Fai Mao

Fentanyl is smuggled into USA by Billions of dollars worth.
Mostly all young users. Fentanyl is more potent than heroin by orders of magnitude. Very easy to overdose which can be fatal.


8 posted on 07/23/2022 9:06:38 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump & MAGA are the only way to keep USA viable.)
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To: anthropocene_x

More crap from Atlantic.


9 posted on 07/23/2022 9:19:08 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: anthropocene_x

This is a problem but the authors are proponents and perpetuating the death spiral.

Opioids ?

Fentanyl ?

Those make no point in such an analysis

They condone opening the border for a narco war against Americans that has killed hundreds of thousands.

Health care?

Y’all got the biggest lefty adjustment toward universal health care in 2013 with Obamacare. But that decreased life expectancy. That is the idea. They wanted that.


10 posted on 07/23/2022 9:32:16 PM PDT by lonestar67 (America is exceptional)
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To: ifinnegan

*Crapaganda

Because who didn’t notice all the bodies of “sudden death” people just piling up in the streets, before the Coof?

/Gaslight, Inc


11 posted on 07/23/2022 10:20:16 PM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: anthropocene_x

I remember reading years ago that we have higher infant mortality than other wealthy countries since we count the deaths differently. If that is true, that could be part of the reason for disparity before covid.


12 posted on 07/23/2022 10:52:55 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: PghBaldy

We do classify infant deaths differently and we try to save many more premature infants than other countries do. Those are then classified as an infant death whereas in other countries they make no effort and classify them as miscarriages


13 posted on 07/23/2022 11:14:40 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: nwrep

What you are seeing is the effects of a despotic establishment warring against its own citizens, not some supposed genetic deficiency. You should hang your head in shame.


14 posted on 07/23/2022 11:19:57 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (Welcome to leftist Planet Lab Cage where are YOU are the rat)
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To: wildcard_redneck

“What you are seeing is the effects of a despotic establishment warring against its own citizens”

This is correct. And discovering that is hard because we’re also conditioned to “fight to win” against something like a sports team with different helmets, and that’s not how the despotic elite and demons work.


15 posted on 07/24/2022 3:22:43 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: anthropocene_x

Most of the excess deaths appear to be due to things Americans choose to do.

Like taking drugs, driving drunk, eating to obesity, not exercising, going to dangerous places at dangerous times and getting shot, etc.


16 posted on 07/24/2022 4:23:04 AM PDT by FarCenter
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“Most of the excess deaths appear to be due to things Americans choose to do.

Like taking drugs, driving drunk, eating to obesity, not exercising, going to dangerous places at dangerous times and getting shot, etc.”

People chose to get shot? Help me out with understanding that process.


17 posted on 07/24/2022 4:26:10 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: anthropocene_x

A few things......

This is not a comparison of like for like. ie what is the average life expectancy of Danish Americans vs Danes, German Americans vs Germans, Japanese Americans vs Japanese, etc. The point being the US is the only wealthy country that has a substantial Black population and they are more prone to heart disease. Japanese by way of contrast have inherited some good genes which make them less prone to heart disease and thus they have longer lifespans on average.

Next, the US counts infant mortality differently than European countries do. In European countries if the baby is under a certain weight, they do not count as a live birth. In the US they do count. Underweight babies are significantly more likely to die. Again Blacks are more prone to having underweight babies.

The other factor is that America has a worse obesity/overweight epidemic. Though European countries are catching up quickly, the problem is worse in the US. That means more heart disease, cancer, etc

Finally, America has a raging fentanyl epidemic that the Biden administration is doing nothing about because that would require closing the border which it is unwilling to do. We had over 100,000 deaths due to drug overdoses last year. That is a staggering number and these are mostly younger people.

None of this says anything about the healthcare system by the way though Leftists will of course try to claim socialized medicine would somehow fix everything (newsflash! it won’t).


18 posted on 07/24/2022 4:30:52 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: FarCenter

“Excess deaths” compared to the rate before the shots. People were doing all that before and since, it hasn’t changed but the death rate has.


19 posted on 07/24/2022 4:31:07 AM PDT by hopespringseternal
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To: mad_as_he$$

“People chose to get shot? Help me out with understanding that process.”

The Chicago Trib published a list of all the shootings over a weekend.

If you weren’t out between 9 pm and 6 am, or you weren’t in a number of fairly small neighborhoods, your chances of getting shot were minimal.


20 posted on 07/24/2022 4:34:15 AM PDT by FarCenter
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