At first glance, you may be thinking that this could be an indication that letting everyone get repeatedly infected with a highly contagious and rapidly mutating virus, that can attack our vascular system and damage our immune system by depleting our t-cells (which help fight cancer), was a bad idea...
But let me assure you, it was entirely from lockdowns and the jabs... and also work from home policies... and maybe Russia somehow?
Idk, man. One could look at this graph and conclude that a huge uptick in the number of people working remotely or from home plus modern vehicle safety standards has dropped instances of car accident deaths below the suicide/fentanyl rates.
It would be helpful to look at per-capita deaths by age to know if mortality is rising or falling in each category, rather than just seeing the most predominant cause of death. If we're seeing a surge in fentanyl deaths, that's bad on its face before we consider traffic deaths. If we see a surge in traffic deaths that's eclipsed by fentanyl, it tells us something even more dire. If we see rising or falling rates of cancer relative to cardiovascular disease, that gives us much more information.
Also, making California and Texas the same size as Wyoming and Rhode Island really confuses the overall picture. A heat map my metroplex would be much more informative.