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New mortality data in - truly chilling
Posted on 3/31/23 at 8:54 pm
Posted on 3/31/23 at 8:54 pm
Basically, life expectancy in the US is 5 years less than in the UK for the vast majority of our population.
That is just shocking.
FT article - likely paywalled
summary twitter thread
I never realized how truly American the opioid problem is. Systemic failure.
quote:
What is causing these gaps? Shockingly, America’s mortality problem is driven primarily by deaths among the young. One statistic in particular stood out: one in 25 American five-year-olds today will not make it to their 40th birthday.
That is just shocking.
quote:
While Americans and Britons living in the richest neighbourhoods of their respective countries have similar, high life expectancies, at the bottom end it’s a different story. People born in the very poorest pockets of Blackpool are expected to live fully five years more than the poorest in the US.
This would be damning enough, but we’ve not yet accounted for the fact that the richest Americans are so much richer than their British counterparts. Once we do, Britain pulls clear at every income level. Someone with a net household income of about £65,000 or $100,000 will live to an average age of 85 in England, but only 80 in the US.
FT article - likely paywalled
summary twitter thread
I never realized how truly American the opioid problem is. Systemic failure.
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Posted on 3/31/23 at 8:55 pm to Big Scrub TX
Gotta wonder if all the vaccines are also causing early deaths.
Posted on 3/31/23 at 8:57 pm to ShinerHorns
If it isnt vaccines its the poison they load into our food and water.
Posted on 3/31/23 at 8:58 pm to ShinerHorns
Fentanyl and the vaccine
Posted on 3/31/23 at 8:59 pm to ShinerHorns
quote:It's not the vaccine. Everything is adjusted for covid in the numbers, but in any event, other countries quite obviously vaccinated as much or more than the US.
Gotta wonder if all the vaccines are also causing early deaths.
Posted on 3/31/23 at 8:59 pm to Pookers
quote:It's cars, drugs and guns, but diet is certainly greasing the skids.
If it isnt vaccines its the poison they load into our food and water.
Posted on 3/31/23 at 9:00 pm to Big Scrub TX
Some of it is the opioids.
Some of it is the fact that one particular segment of the population has an insane mortality rate between 12 and 40.
Some of it is the fact that one particular segment of the population has an insane mortality rate between 12 and 40.
Posted on 3/31/23 at 9:00 pm to ShinerHorns
The data only goes up to 2020, so, no.
Opioids and being fat. Plenty of brits, especially outside of London, are fat too, though they seem to walk more than we do, even if they're obese.
10k steps a day to live longer has merit.
Opioids and being fat. Plenty of brits, especially outside of London, are fat too, though they seem to walk more than we do, even if they're obese.
10k steps a day to live longer has merit.
Posted on 3/31/23 at 9:00 pm to Big Scrub TX
DAMN - glad I already made it this far.
Posted on 3/31/23 at 9:01 pm to Big Scrub TX
Yeah, definitely multifactorial.
Posted on 3/31/23 at 9:01 pm to Big Scrub TX
We are a nation of fat, lazy fricks.
Posted on 3/31/23 at 9:01 pm to Big Scrub TX
We are FAT!!!
Posted on 3/31/23 at 9:02 pm to loogaroo
Im not fat, you're fat. "Cracks open Dr. Pepper"
Posted on 3/31/23 at 9:03 pm to Big Scrub TX
If the Albanians and Sicilians were the main distributors and sellers of American drugs, we'd have far less overdoses imo. The drug scene in the UK is far less deadly than it is here, and it largely has to do with the business practices of their criminal gangs.
Posted on 3/31/23 at 9:04 pm to teke184
quote:You can say that, but the big gap is persistent among almost the entire income line - and our rich people are a good bit richer than theirs.
Some of it is the fact that one particular segment of the population has an insane mortality rate between 12 and 40.
Posted on 3/31/23 at 9:04 pm to SCLibertarian
quote:Opioids are an almost exclusively American problem - and that came via "legal" channels.
If the Albanians and Sicilians were the main distributors and sellers of American drugs, we'd have far less overdoses imo. The drug scene in the UK is far less deadly than it is here, and it largely has to do with the business practices of their criminal gangs.
Posted on 3/31/23 at 9:12 pm to Big Scrub TX
quote:
guns
You misspelled culcha.
And I’m not sure you can really control for COVID (and riots). So many factors. Drugs. Alcohol. Isolation and the attendant depression and sleep issues. But yeah UK would’ve had all of that and then some I guess.
Do Brits really eat better than [white] Americans?
My money is on fentanyl as far as the continental comparisons go.
Posted on 3/31/23 at 9:16 pm to McLemore
quote:Controlling for race, it doesn't change the numbers. That's part of why it's so shocking.
You misspelled culcha.
quote:Probably not that much better. To be clear - one of the reasons this is so depressing is that, of the 10 countries measured, the UK is the SECOND worst.
Do Brits really eat better than [white] Americans?
quote:Guns and cars are about 2 years each. Drugs is most of the rest.
My money is on fentanyl as far as the continental comparisons go.
Posted on 3/31/23 at 9:19 pm to Big Scrub TX
This comes down to a basic morality question
freedom and higher death rates
or
greater levels of govt control but safer lives
freedom and higher death rates
or
greater levels of govt control but safer lives
Posted on 3/31/23 at 9:19 pm to Big Scrub TX
A lot of the deaths are due to fentanyl. Border security is needed.
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