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@RollingStone @politics-news-RollingStone #Amish voters helped Trump win, mainly over issue of raw milk. Having the election in PA decided by voters living in the 17th century seems very telling of the state of this nation as a whole.

If we work hard enough, we can see an age where the already lowered #birthrates are impacted by a high #mortalityrate for those that are born.

Maybe we can get our #lifeexpectancy back down to the 1900 level of ~49 yrs.

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@luckytran #Amish voters helped Trump win, mainly over issue of raw milk. Having the election in PA decided by voters living in the 17th century seems very telling of the state of this nation as a whole.

If we work hard enough, we can see an age where the already lowered #birthrates are impacted by a high #mortalityrate for those that are born.

Maybe we can get our #lifeexpectancy back down to the 1900 level of ~49 yrs.

"Study reveals staggering toll of being Black in America: 1.6 million excess deaths over 22 years

Research has long shown that Black people live sicker lives and die younger than white people.

Now a new study, published Tuesday in JAMA, casts the nation’s racial inequities in stark relief, finding that the higher mortality rate among Black Americans resulted in 1.63 million excess deaths relative to white Americans over more than two decades.

Because so many Black people die young — with many years of life ahead of them — their higher mortality rate from 1999 to 2020 resulted in a cumulative loss of more than 80 million years of life compared with the white population, the study showed."

🔗: nbcnews.com/health/health-news

#MortalityRate #health #healthcare
#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi
#US #USPol #USPolitics

NBC NewsStudy reveals staggering toll of being Black in America: 1.6 million excess deaths over 22 yearsBy Liz Szabo | KFF Health News

"America Fails the Civilization Test

The average American my age is roughly six times more likely to die in the coming year than his counterpart in Switzerland.

(...) How’s the U.S. doing on the civilization test? When graded on a curve against its peer nations, it is failing. The U.S. mortality rate is much higher, at almost every age, than that of most of Europe, Japan, and Australia. That is, compared with the citizens of these nations, American infants are less likely to turn 5, American teenagers are less likely to turn 30, and American 30-somethings are less likely to survive to retirement."

🔗: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

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The AtlanticAmerica Fails the Civilization TestBy Derek Thompson

@cmorris @Benfell To your point the #UnitedStates has to date ignored the rights of #OlderPersons and the initial #covid #MortalityRate struck hard at the #eldery especially those in #carehomes #hospitals. US has failed to engage with and join #InternationalTreaties that #protect and #defend against #ageism in the #workplace #AgeDiscrimination #Harassment #EEOC #ADEA are generally so ineffective that some turn to #litigation which is too costly for most or simply leave #employment under #duress.