US Life Expectancy Dropped One Full Year In First Half 2020

US life expectancy continues historic decline with another drop in 2021, study finds - CNN

 

all the fentanyl poisonings of younger people is helping to skew the numbers too. A lot of these aren't overdoses, these are poisonings.

 

anti vaxxers doing work to help solve the social security solvency problem?

 

Covid continues to kill the elderly. Not the young. This is a result of the pandemic. But is worse because of of how it was handled. Our public health leaders have been abject disasters by in large.

Yet people want to blame it on vaccine hesitancy for a drug that does not even stop the disease. Propaganda at work.

 

Pre-covid, wasn't the decline a very demographic thing?

 

Pre-covid there was a 0.1 year decline associated with the opioid crisis.

 

Side note. Do we have good data showing LE rates are even accurate? Like do we look at the projected LE from say 1934 and verify it was accurate?

Isn't using a temporary thing like Covid a bad determination of how long someone might live?

 

Alcohol deaths went up about 20k in the first half of 2021

Alcohol-Related Deaths Spiked During First Year of Pandemic: Study

same with drugs
Drug Overdose Deaths in the U.S. Top 100,000 Annually

 

Almost two full years lost through 2021. That means around 650 million years of lives lost in the US.
U.S. life expectancy fell by 2 yrs in 2020, sharpest drop among high-income peers

 

Between SS and medicare that has to add up to $4- $5 trillion. Will covid be revenue neutral?

 

One would think that the countries with the best health care systems would see the smallest drop in life expectancy due to a pandemic.

 

Pummel an aging and already unhealthy population with stark terror, morning, noon and night; for interminable months ... feign shock when people die en masse.

 

Really? Not according to the CDC. Yes, those lives matter...moving the needle. No pun intended.


The new data documents that estimated overdose deaths from opioids increased to 75,673 in the 12-month period ending in April 2021, up from 56,064 the year before. Overdose deaths from synthetic opioids (primarily fentanyl) and psychostimulants such as methamphetamine also increased in the 12-month period ending in April 2021. Cocaine deaths also increased, as did deaths from natural and semi-synthetic opioids (such as prescription pain medication).

Drug Overdose Deaths in the U.S. Top 100,000 Annually

 

I wonder how it would effect life expectancy numbers if they calculated in abortions?

 

They were 130,355 per Worldometer. I struggle with that number being the main driver of losing a year of life expectancy for 335,000,000 people

 

I lost two years on one play in that game. Thanks Wilson.

 

Since one's lifespan statistically begins at birth, it would increase life expectancy because you're subtracting negative numbers. Every 1st trimester abortion would effectively add at least 3 months to someone else's life on average. Be careful what you ask for.

 

Wasn't it 50,000,000 and counting a few years ago? That is very significant.

 

Seems it would decrease it. It seems you'd be adding a neg #. Say 3 people have the following life spans:

1 10 years
2 20 years
3 30 years

avg = 20 years = (10 + 20 + 30)/3......see you add the numbers

add an abortion 3 months from birth

1 10
2 20
3 30
4 -.25 years

avg = (10 + 20 + 30 + (-.25))/4 < 20 years

Your way would also bring it down

avg =(10 + 20 + 30 - (-.25))/4 < 20 years

I think you failed to consider the denominator