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More young Americans are dying – and it's not COVID. Why aren't we searching for answers?

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  1. flgator2

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    COVID doesn't explain why Gen Z, millennials are dying. What does? (usatoday.com)

    Life insurance actuaries are reporting that many more people are dying – still – than in the years before the pandemic. And while deaths during COVID-19 had largely occurred among the old and infirm, this new wave is hitting prime-of-life people hard.

    No one knows precisely what is driving the phenomenon, but there is an inexplicable lack of urgency to find out. A concerted investigation is in order.

    Deaths among young Americans documented in employee life insurance claims should alone set off alarms. Among working people 35 to 44 years old, a stunning 34% more died than expected in the last quarter of 2022, with above-average rates in other working-age groups, too.

    And there was an extreme and sudden increase in worker mortality in the fall of 2021 even as the nation saw a precipitous drop in COVID-19 deaths from a previous wave. In the third quarter of 2021, deaths among workers ages 35-44 reached a pandemic peak of 101% above – or double – the three-year pre-COVID baseline. In two other prime working-age groups, mortality was 79% above expected.


    I wonder how many of them got the vaccine.
     
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  2. rtgator

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    "I wonder how many of them got the vaccine."

    Totally irresponsible BS. The vaccine literally saved millions of lives worldwide.

    Next BS question: "I wonder how many of them drank Bud Light."
     
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  3. jeffbrig

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    This is interesting.... I'm a little surprised there isn't data somewhere to point the finger at causal factors. Is there a post-Covid YOLO mentality, with risky behaviors leading to more accidents? More alcohol/drug use causing excess mortality? Time will tell, I guess...
     
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  4. mrhansduck

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    I thought this might be a post about drug overdoses or 5G. I assume older people were more likely than young people to take the vaccine? Is there a theory about why young people would be more at risk than the elderly in terms of purported fatal effects?
     
  5. flgator2

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    Lol Right. The only BS about this is your personal view.
     
  6. duggers_dad

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    All that and … *coughs* …
     
  7. phatGator

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    The two ideas are not mutually incompatible. It is possible that the vaccine saved millions of lives, while at the same time killed others in much fewer numbers. I’m not saying it did kill people, I’m just saying it is possible and not inconsistent with the overall benefit.

    I just came across this article this morning about the possibility that in some rare cases, the vaccine triggers auto immune responses that mimic long Covid.

    https://www.science.org/content/art...avirus-vaccines-may-cause-long-covid-symptoms
     
  8. G8tas

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    I didn't read OP's post but I already know he figured out a way to bring up vaccines which tells me that he did no research on the cause of death or a comparison to a number of other highly vaccinated countries
     
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  9. duggers_dad

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    I have consistently argued that if one person has been killed by a vaccine, that’s one more than died of a fictitious virus. 2020ff has been just that darkly silly.
     
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  10. wgbgator

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    Younger people are probably the least vaccinated group demographically
     
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  11. G8tas

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    Remember when a certain group talked about the increase of suicides and overdoses due to the pandemic? Now that's forgotten and the cause of death is vaccine related
     
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  12. wgbgator

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    Well, I suppose its more comforting to explain it that way than come to grips with the idea that American life is a suicide pact
     
  13. duggers_dad

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    In 2020-21 Covidians were quick to remind us that suicides were down from previous years.
     
  14. duggers_dad

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    Vaccines can’t be a factor because reasons.
     
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    Bud light is guilty of running one of the dumbest marketing campaigns of all time. Killing people is a silly accusation
     
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    Multitudes were killed during ‘Covid.’ The only thing we don’t know is just how many.
     
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    More vaccines than ever. More illness than ever. I thought the point was to…
     
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    “Increased suicides” was the narrative they were running with at the time…they’ve moved onto a juicier narrative since then.