It's not clear, he said, why deaths are increasing among younger adults and children, which had been declining before the pandemic.
Hmmmm, curious! :covid-cool:
Fuck the real headline, doesn't do the story justice
Only Alzheimer's disease and chronic lower respiratory diseases declined among the leading causes of death.
Presumably because Covid killed them first?
How can our officials be so incompetent to not call it deaths of despair
I am demonstrating personal responsibility by taking small amounts of multiple drugs daily instead of being addicted to big bad one drug like bad people do
I have this theory that the concept of 'public health' has lost all meaning post-covid when it was proven to be a farce
Woolf said he doesn't think it will take 25 years for Americans to regain the ground lost over the past two. Once COVID-19 deaths fall, life expectancy numbers should bounce back, he said.
umm am i like actually fuckin stupid or is this like a utterly baffling assertion to make? with repeated infections causing cumulative and long lasting (or permanent) damage aka long covid, and with the organ damage (which i guess is essentially a part of long covid anyway) how could this possibly be true? doesnt long covid result in shit like microclots and other utterly fucking horrifying things that all but ensure an early death (however early that could be doesnt really matter.... if its still ultimately below life expectancy)
like say the virus just disappears one day, just poof its gone, itd never happen but say it does (:sicko-wistful: )
you still have all these people, of all ages just dying from various causes that all ultimately stem from the organ damage theyve sustained via the 19 covid reinfections theyve accumulated over the years.... so how exactly would life expectancy just "bounce back"?
Here, I will correct the statement.
Iridaniotter says they don't think it will take 25 years for Americans to regain the ground lost over the past two. As COVID-19 related deaths accumulate and the general deterioration of the American empire continues, life expectancy numbers should likewise continue to fall, they said.
:blob-no-thoughts:
:covid-cool: :corona: :thonk: :corona-and-lime: :corona-whitehouse:
I forgot where I heard this from but life expectancy is the kind of metric that blood pressure is, it's really indicative. They used it to predict the sino-india split, it's how they knew something was wrong well before the USSR fell.
I guess before they had the war in the 60s they were friends. lol I dont know
Health and patient safety coverage at USA TODAY is made possible in part by a grant from the Masimo Foundation for Ethics, Innovation and Competition in Healthcare. The Masimo Foundation does not provide editorial input.
The fact that the Masimo Corporation is a for-profit healthcare company surely has nothing to do with the article's total omission of any mention of nationalized vs privatized healthcare systems
Cause that will make things cheaper; this is why it costs $150,000 to save your arm and leg, instead of literally costing an arm and a leg.
And it will continue to fall
At the end of all this shit, there won't be a socialist revolution or whatever. Just the collapse of this horrible, stupid civilization into darkness.
Even that would be less horrible than what the liberals want: an eternal now with no meaningful trajectory changes of any kind, just numbers going up and treats continuing to flow faster and faster while the contradictions intensify until techno magic solves those contradictions without actually changing anything in an inconvenient way. :agony-4horsemen:
Who cares. We'll call it whatever keeps people from whining when they could be doing something worthwhile.
