New York Times writer looks at the recent increase in child mortality. It looks the same things that are lowering life expectancy for everyone ... Guns, drugs, traffic. Covid had smaller effect. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/briefing/childhood-death-rate.html
I see from the link drugs and guns have been a huge increases. As a teen boy parent my order of concern was always: Drugs, drinking/driving, stupid human tricks (including handling guns). Suicide is always a lingering specter as well for teens.
The kids seemed safer when schools were open and the kids had a place to go. But that was only for one year, something else is the cause...
A few ideas: Democrat policies killed a lot of kids. Border wall might have reduced fentanyl deaths De-policing after George Floyd died led to a huge increase homicides and traffic fatalities. Democrats attacks on whites (particularly white males), DEI policies and lost jobs/lower wages/higher rents from illegal and legal immigration have led to deaths of despair )suicides, alcohol, drugs). Welfare leads to fewer people working, people being out of shape Covid vaccines increased mortality for kids. So did lockdowns. Masks on kids in school was semi-retarded. Just my opinion Too many vaccines in general Listening to women run their mouths takes a toll. Especially liberal women
FB. TicTok. X. . . etc. Check out Jonathan Haidt's work on this. We can see major spikes in negative activity with the introduction of the smart phone in 2013, especially things like girl's suicide rates, which have spiked since then.
Without looking into any studies... i wonder if the legalization of weed is opening up the path to other drugs? I am pretty sure I read something about drug use being below pre-pandemic levels though which would fly in the face of my statement.
I doubt it. Only reason it was a gateway before is because of it's illegality (i.e. you had to buy it from a drug dealer/criminal who probably had access to other illegal stuff). So, if legal, no reason why it wouldn't be the same as beer or alcohol in terms of being a gateway. Personally, alcohol is the "gateway" for me, as it smashes down every "gate" in terms of making smart decisions.
There is a chapter in Malcom Gladwell’s new book, “Revenge of the Tipping Point”. He talks about a real town he renames as Popular Grove. The town is marked by everyone being perfectly homogenous. The town unfortunately experienced a spike in social epidemic and suicides. Looking at the data, Gladwell proposes a thesis that these perfectly manicured communities lack a heterogeneous make up for children to “find their own people”. Despair is a function of covering.
Border wall might have reduced fentanyl deaths? Almost no fentanyl is smuggled into the US by illegal immigrants. Even if the wall were built it would have had virtually no impact considering that the overwhelming majority of fentanyl enters the US through legal ports of entry.
He's a Russian bot just throwing turds at the wall. I was going to jump on that same point, but it's so out there as to not even be worth it. It does come over the border, but can easily be smuggled due to the small size. It doesn't take much of it to make a lot of money, so its actually pretty easy to smuggle in. A better process all around at the border might help, but the wall was always a symbolic canard.
funding for all that scanning equipment waiting to be installed sitting at the border certainly would have. sadly, itis still in the warehouse waiting on the new truck scanning lanes to be built
It is funny. We militarize the border, making it harder to ship cocaine and heroin into the US. Drug importers shift to higher concentration synthetic drugs (fentanyl and meth), which are both easier to import into a militarized border and limits material costs. The solution: what if we militarize the border more? That will get rid of synthetics!
I would also add that the border security bill that Trump blocked provided funds for additional scanners.
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