December 06, 2018
Declining Life Span, Declining America
Timothy Birdnow
For the third straight year the life expectancy of the American People has declined.
According to the Governmental Center for Disease Control (you know, the people who told us it was our duty to bring Ebola sufferers into the U.S.) the American life expectancy declined as a result of a variety of factors. The U.S. is the only First World country losing life expectancy.
As the Smithsonian article notes: "As Lenny Bernstein notes for The Washington Post, the three-year drop represents the longest sustained decline in expected lifespan since the tumultuous period of 1915 to 1918. Then, the decrease could be at least partially attributed to World War I and the devastating 1918 influenza pandemic. Now, the drivers are drug overdoses, which claimed 70,237 lives in 2017, and suicides, which numbered more than 47,000 over the same period. Both of these figures rose between 2016 and 2017.
[...]
According to Ars Technica’s Beth Mole, 2015 marked the first recorded drop in U.S. life expectancy since 1993, with Americans shaving an average of 0.1 years off of their lifespans. The same proved true in 2016 and 2017, Cathleen O’Grady writes in a separate Ars Technica piece, making the latest projection 78.6 years, down 0.3 years from 2015’s 78.8. Broken down by gender, men could expect to live an average of 76.1 years, down from 76.2 in 2016, while women could anticipate living until 81.1, the same age projected in 2016
Although the country’s aging Baby Boomer population factored into the decline, Mike Stobbe of the Associated Press reports that increased deaths amongst younger and middle-aged individuals (particularly those between 24 and 44) had an outsized effect on calculations.
As Kathryn McHugh of Harvard Medical School tells NPR’s Richard Harris, "We're seeing the drop in life expectancy not because we're hitting a cap [for lifespans of] people in their 80s, [but] because people are dying in their 20s [and] 30s.â€
End excerpts.
The CDC primarily blames opioid abuse and diabetes as well as a rise in suicide.
The listed the top ten leading causes of death as:
"heart disease, cancer, unintentional injuries (drug overdoses constituted slightly less than half of this category in 2017), chronic lower respiratory disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, influenza and pneumonia, kidney disease, and suicide"
End excerpt.
What the CDC conveniently hides is the reasons for all of this. First, America is home to millions of illegal aliens, and to even more legal aliens. In point of fact, this country is housing roughly sixty million aliens, or roughly one in five people living here were born overseas. There are more immigrants in the U.S. right now than the entire population of Canada. America is the third most populous country on Earth, I might add, and we will have a billion people by 2060, according to a study by Yale University.
Now, if you import the Third World into the country you should not be surprised at Third World health problems. I have little doubt that much of the internal organ diseases that are driving up the numbers are directly related to this influx of foreign peoples.
I know a fellow from Eritrea, for instance, who had to have five organs transplanted; he went to visit his home country and caught a parasite that killed much of his internal structure. He was born in Africa, you see, but he didn't still have all the immunity his cousins back home possessed.
So, a large part of this decline is caused by the influx of so many immigrants. The CDC will never tell you that.
Yes, diabetes is a problem (one undoubtedly caused in no small part by the government itself as the obesity problem in America coincided with the "food pyramid" and the discouraging of meat eating in favor of a high carbohydrate diet back in the 60's and '70's) and it is clearly a problem that America suffers from more than, say, India.
Another aspect of this that is being downplayed is the matter of violence, particularly in the minority communities. They seem to have lumped this in with "unintentional injuries" but there is clearly a violence problem in minority communities. One cannot ignore the disintegration of the family, plus the political correctness of our times which demands blame be placed on "white privilege" rather than an increasingly nihilistic and violent counter-culture. Did white privilege cause the Ferguson riots, or simple bad behavior? Violence is a political tool, too, and the Ferguson riots were financed to the tune of thirty three million bucks by George Soros. But white America is forbidden to speak about any aspect of black or latino culture and we are told we must pretend that black crime is not out of control, or that blacks aren't shooting each-other at record rates. The gangsta-rap culture is just something that may not be criticized. When you stop teaching people right from wrong - and stop enforcing laws - you wind up with anarchy. We are close to it on the streets of many of our cities.
And what of the opioid epidemic? It was Progressive medical policy that promoted this in the first place. The notion that everyone should be properly anesthetized, that suffering can and should be completely eliminated by the therapeutic guardians of our society led to over prescribing of these drugs. Now politicians somehow try to lay the blame for this on the drug companies, but it was medical and governmental policies that led to this. The drug companies did nothing but sell their beneficial product. It's misuse was not THEIR fault.
And, as always, the solution to the problem the Left created is more government control, greater regulation, more thumbs on the American People.
It always leads to that with these people.
It's not like the Left doesn't like drugs; on the contrary, they are busily promoting the legalization of marijuana, and the decriminalization of the rest of the narcotics (the very thing that has led to the violence in minority America) even while they punish the drug manufacturers. They have a very strange approach to all this.
But ultimately it appears the white working class is the "beneficiaries" of this decline in life span. Why?
Well, if you are told you are scum, the root of all evil, by the gatekeepers of society, if you see your prospects for a decent life drying up as the elites promote globalism and minority advancement at your expense, if you find yourself unable to get into college, and sorry if you do because you are pilloried by the leftists running those asylums, if promotions are reserved for women and minorities, if you find it increasingly unlikely you will find a life partner, or that you can rely on a family remaining intact, you aren't going to have a lot of zeal for life. Couple that with the decline in religion, meaning you don't have the fear of eternal damnation should you decide to end your life, then why wouldn't you commit suicide? You have little to live for , few hopes for it getting better, and no reason not to kill yourself.
Or dope yourself into a stupor. Or drink yourself blind.
Our leaders, the elites, the teachers, the medical doctors, the lawyers and politicians, have failed us. And they are doubling down on the very things that have started this downward spiral. Our leaders care more about their petty power and privilege than about the future of the country. That is a clear sign America is falling.
I believe that future historians will place the election of Barack Obama as the fall of the American republic. Even if they don't they will say it was a harbinger of the end. Just as Rome fell but nobody noticed for a while, so too is America become a dead husk but nobody as yet fully grasps that fact.
I think America's decline in lifespan is a tell-tale of that fall.
For the third straight year the life expectancy of the American People has declined.
According to the Governmental Center for Disease Control (you know, the people who told us it was our duty to bring Ebola sufferers into the U.S.) the American life expectancy declined as a result of a variety of factors. The U.S. is the only First World country losing life expectancy.
As the Smithsonian article notes: "As Lenny Bernstein notes for The Washington Post, the three-year drop represents the longest sustained decline in expected lifespan since the tumultuous period of 1915 to 1918. Then, the decrease could be at least partially attributed to World War I and the devastating 1918 influenza pandemic. Now, the drivers are drug overdoses, which claimed 70,237 lives in 2017, and suicides, which numbered more than 47,000 over the same period. Both of these figures rose between 2016 and 2017.
[...]
According to Ars Technica’s Beth Mole, 2015 marked the first recorded drop in U.S. life expectancy since 1993, with Americans shaving an average of 0.1 years off of their lifespans. The same proved true in 2016 and 2017, Cathleen O’Grady writes in a separate Ars Technica piece, making the latest projection 78.6 years, down 0.3 years from 2015’s 78.8. Broken down by gender, men could expect to live an average of 76.1 years, down from 76.2 in 2016, while women could anticipate living until 81.1, the same age projected in 2016
Although the country’s aging Baby Boomer population factored into the decline, Mike Stobbe of the Associated Press reports that increased deaths amongst younger and middle-aged individuals (particularly those between 24 and 44) had an outsized effect on calculations.
As Kathryn McHugh of Harvard Medical School tells NPR’s Richard Harris, "We're seeing the drop in life expectancy not because we're hitting a cap [for lifespans of] people in their 80s, [but] because people are dying in their 20s [and] 30s.â€
End excerpts.
The CDC primarily blames opioid abuse and diabetes as well as a rise in suicide.
The listed the top ten leading causes of death as:
"heart disease, cancer, unintentional injuries (drug overdoses constituted slightly less than half of this category in 2017), chronic lower respiratory disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, influenza and pneumonia, kidney disease, and suicide"
End excerpt.
What the CDC conveniently hides is the reasons for all of this. First, America is home to millions of illegal aliens, and to even more legal aliens. In point of fact, this country is housing roughly sixty million aliens, or roughly one in five people living here were born overseas. There are more immigrants in the U.S. right now than the entire population of Canada. America is the third most populous country on Earth, I might add, and we will have a billion people by 2060, according to a study by Yale University.
I know a fellow from Eritrea, for instance, who had to have five organs transplanted; he went to visit his home country and caught a parasite that killed much of his internal structure. He was born in Africa, you see, but he didn't still have all the immunity his cousins back home possessed.
So, a large part of this decline is caused by the influx of so many immigrants. The CDC will never tell you that.
Yes, diabetes is a problem (one undoubtedly caused in no small part by the government itself as the obesity problem in America coincided with the "food pyramid" and the discouraging of meat eating in favor of a high carbohydrate diet back in the 60's and '70's) and it is clearly a problem that America suffers from more than, say, India.
Another aspect of this that is being downplayed is the matter of violence, particularly in the minority communities. They seem to have lumped this in with "unintentional injuries" but there is clearly a violence problem in minority communities. One cannot ignore the disintegration of the family, plus the political correctness of our times which demands blame be placed on "white privilege" rather than an increasingly nihilistic and violent counter-culture. Did white privilege cause the Ferguson riots, or simple bad behavior? Violence is a political tool, too, and the Ferguson riots were financed to the tune of thirty three million bucks by George Soros. But white America is forbidden to speak about any aspect of black or latino culture and we are told we must pretend that black crime is not out of control, or that blacks aren't shooting each-other at record rates. The gangsta-rap culture is just something that may not be criticized. When you stop teaching people right from wrong - and stop enforcing laws - you wind up with anarchy. We are close to it on the streets of many of our cities.
And what of the opioid epidemic? It was Progressive medical policy that promoted this in the first place. The notion that everyone should be properly anesthetized, that suffering can and should be completely eliminated by the therapeutic guardians of our society led to over prescribing of these drugs. Now politicians somehow try to lay the blame for this on the drug companies, but it was medical and governmental policies that led to this. The drug companies did nothing but sell their beneficial product. It's misuse was not THEIR fault.
And, as always, the solution to the problem the Left created is more government control, greater regulation, more thumbs on the American People.
It always leads to that with these people.
It's not like the Left doesn't like drugs; on the contrary, they are busily promoting the legalization of marijuana, and the decriminalization of the rest of the narcotics (the very thing that has led to the violence in minority America) even while they punish the drug manufacturers. They have a very strange approach to all this.
But ultimately it appears the white working class is the "beneficiaries" of this decline in life span. Why?
Well, if you are told you are scum, the root of all evil, by the gatekeepers of society, if you see your prospects for a decent life drying up as the elites promote globalism and minority advancement at your expense, if you find yourself unable to get into college, and sorry if you do because you are pilloried by the leftists running those asylums, if promotions are reserved for women and minorities, if you find it increasingly unlikely you will find a life partner, or that you can rely on a family remaining intact, you aren't going to have a lot of zeal for life. Couple that with the decline in religion, meaning you don't have the fear of eternal damnation should you decide to end your life, then why wouldn't you commit suicide? You have little to live for , few hopes for it getting better, and no reason not to kill yourself.
Or dope yourself into a stupor. Or drink yourself blind.
Our leaders, the elites, the teachers, the medical doctors, the lawyers and politicians, have failed us. And they are doubling down on the very things that have started this downward spiral. Our leaders care more about their petty power and privilege than about the future of the country. That is a clear sign America is falling.
I believe that future historians will place the election of Barack Obama as the fall of the American republic. Even if they don't they will say it was a harbinger of the end. Just as Rome fell but nobody noticed for a while, so too is America become a dead husk but nobody as yet fully grasps that fact.
I think America's decline in lifespan is a tell-tale of that fall.
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