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This Country is Killing Us.
It’s time to confront just how brutal America really is, and the numbers reflect it.
Numbers don’t lie, do they?
Roni Caryn Rabin with The New York Times writes:
“The average life expectancy of Americans fell precipitously in 2020 and 2021, the sharpest two-year decline in nearly 100 years and a stark reminder of the toll exacted on the nation by the continuing coronavirus pandemic.
In 2021, the average American could expect to live until the age of 76, federal health researchers reported on Wednesday. The figure represents a loss of almost three years since 2019, when Americans could expect to live, on average, nearly 79 years.
The reduction has been particularly steep among Native Americans and Alaska Natives, the National Center for Health Statistics reported. Average life expectancy in those groups was shortened by four years in 2020 alone…”
Take a moment to process how massive that is.
A three year decline in life expectancy in just two years.
This country is f*cking killing us.
If we think about it, Covid is just one of so many contributing factors that it has overlapped with. Factors that allowed it to do as much damage as it…
