Posted on 11/04/2021 10:53:24 AM PDT by mvonfr
The United States had the second-steepest decline in life expectancy among high-income countries last year during the pandemic, according to a study of death data spanning several continents.
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The U.S. trend was among the worst.
U.S. men saw life expectancy fall by nearly 2.3 years, from about 76.7 to 74.4. Women lost more than 1.6 years of life expectancy, from about 81.8 to 80.2.
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If I had to guess I would say this is a suicide and opioid overdose phenomenon, driven in large part by despair fostered by an out of control government.
Corollary: Widowed women live longer after the death of a spouse than do widowers.
Women seem to adapt much better to being "left behind" than men do.
It surprised me too. There’s always a baby boom after a disaster.
What hath Fauci wrought?
Covid and shots isn’t even a blip on the radar screen. What’s causing it is nearly no access to medical care for a year and a half, combined with increased abuse of drugs and alcohol because nobody has a job. The same thing happened in the USSR.
This isn’t vaccines, it is COVID. The data is from 2020, vaccines were barely available. Did y’all forget the bodies piling up in NYC? That wasn’t vaccinations, opiates, or suicide (though there is case for murder against Cuomo).
So could all the fat that a lot of young people carry around these days.
Infant mortality drives life expectancy in pre-industrial societies. I don’t think we had any dramatic changes in infant mortality last year.
The drop was most likely caused by suicides, drug related deaths, etc. among young adults along.
80.2? I’ll be lucky to see 75 with my family’s history. I’m 74, and the last one left. Everyone else died between the ages of 51 and 74. I’m already living on borrowed time. I just hope I die before this country is totally turned into a 3rd-world commie $hithole.
Hmmm...
At two-weeks short of 88, I'm already 14 years overdrawn...
Guess I should expect the FBI to come swatting-for-seniors any day now...
God bless you SuperLuminal, and thanks for the laugh :)
Somewhere north of 80. Not only above average life expectancy, but those "COVID" victims also have, on average, at least 2.6 serious comorbidities.
EVERYTHING about "COVID" is a LIE.
U.S. men saw life expectancy fall by nearly 2.3 years, from about 76.7 to 74.4. Women lost more than 1.6 years of life expectancy, from about 81.8 to 80.2.
Corollary: Widowed women live longer after the death of a spouse than do widowers.
Women seem to adapt much better to being “left behind” than men do.
They do on both sides of our recent familial ancestors. Wives usually lived a decade or longer. Only 3 out of dozens or more women died before their husbands as per our genealogy records in our current families.
The only exceptions were often young wives born during or shortly after the civil war. Many of them had very short life spans. Often, their surviving husbands, remarried and still out lived their newer and even younger wives. That started to change after 1900. Our women born from 1900 to 1940’s, for the most part have outlived their husbands, often by decades.
Delayed treatment for serious ailments and drug overdoses.
A significant factor is the plethora of deaths by drug overdose, shortening the lifespans of tens of thousands of young Americans. Guys who should be living till 77 are dying in their twenties.
Looks like I’m in my last decade…guess I’d better take that cruise.
Both grandmothers outlived their husbands by quite some time, and they were born about the same time as their husbands. My father's mother lived as a widow for 30 years.
On the other hand, my Dad didn't last a year when my mother died. Every conversation was about how much he missed her.
We discovered later that his doctor wanted to admit him to regulate a heart condition we didn't even know existed, but he chose to visit his grandchildren and then promptly died when he returned home. He left on his own terms, I suppose.
On the other hand, my Dad didn’t last a year when my mother died. Every conversation was about how much he missed her.
We discovered later that his doctor wanted to admit him to regulate a heart condition we didn’t even know existed, but he chose to visit his grandchildren and then promptly died when he returned home. He left on his own terms, I suppose.
My Dad did the same. He, my mother and other family came out to visit our kids, my wife and I. Then, he went home and died shortly afterwards. He was close to being 79. My mother was younger and died in her late 80’s.
“Women seem to adapt much better to being ‘left behind’ than men do.”
Often, they/the women have a good support group of friends and family members helping them through their trying times.
After my Dad’s death, my mother lived a full active widow’s life.
Later, during this time she had become closer to her 3 also widowed sibling sisters and a female widowed cousin, who was as close as the siblings. Basically, she and her close sibling relatives, outlived husbands and most friends. She out lived a college friend and the mother of one of my sibling’s best friend. Our Mother, then, told my sibling that she would be ready to go whenever. She lasted about 2+ years.
Her 2 older sisters and her cousin died before she did. She and her younger sister lasted about a year more.
They had survived 2 WW’s, the depression, the Korean war, the Cuban missile crisis and countless problems that we probably never heard about.
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