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It's definitely not (at least not significantly).  Americans have long lived unhealthier lifestyles than other westerners due to demographics, choices and practical differences.
From article:

U.S. life expectancy continued its steady, alarming decline in 2021, as covid-19 and illegal drugs took the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans, according to final government data released Thursday.  
Notably, every age group in the U.S. — from young children to seniors 85 and older — saw a rise in its death rate. Men, women and most racial groups lost ground. In some previous years, even when overall life expectancy declined, some groups advanced.  
Life expectancy in the U.S. dropped to 76.4 years at birth, down from 77 in 2020. The data reinforces a trend line of American longevity declining relative to that of its peer nations. A child born in the United States in 2019, for instance, could expect to live to 78.5, according to the World Health Organization, while a Japanese child born that year had a life expectancy of 84.5, Belgians lived to 81.4 and Swedes lived to 82.4. >

So many Americans will read this and shrug. They will either think, "Good, let the poors and stupids die off already." Or they will think, "Good, I don't want to live till I am 80 anyway."
It isn't just 70-somethings dying, though.  Or poors.  Or stupids. >

Most people dying from covid right now are actually elderly vaccinated people (most people in the US are vaccinated, so not surprising that most deaths would be to vaccinated people). Not that the vaccine caused this but it’s no longer politically related. No one cares anymore—it’s just part of life now. >

I'm not a researcher, but I'd expect that:


2000-2001 deaths are the major contributor to a drop in life expectancy (politics)


2002+ vaccinated/Omicron deaths represent a much smaller uptick in overall death rates, and are not what drove down life expectancy >

We are averaging about 400 deaths and 70,000 cases per day in the US right now, so not negligible. But it was quite low for most of this year. >

Life expectancy is a socialist propaganda metric created by our enemies to undermine our Freedoms and Democracy™
The correct standard is market-adjusted life years normalized to gross-margin per dollar >

Death in service to the ~~Emperor~~ Economy is its own reward >

I wish they would do more than give a one size fits all life expectancy. 
Yes - a million folks died from Covid. It pulled down the overall life expectancy. But most were unvaccinated. 
Why can’t we show life expectancies for anti-vaxxers vs. vaccinated folks, or life expectancy for folks who have a college degree vs. folks who don’t. Or life expectancy by BMI. 
Maybe then we’d start to realize as a society how harmful being an uneducated, unhealthy, anti-vaxx cretin is. >

Probably because if you look across a society and some people are living longer while others are dying so much younger that it pulls the whole average down, it starts to look like a two-tiered society in which many are sacrificed for others to thrive.
Don’t mistake this for a defense of the anti-vax movement. It isn’t. The failures of modern American society are multi-polar, though, and include education, access, lack of other resources, and profoundly anti-human political movements. The most frustrating thing about the anti-vax movement is how the leaders convinced the rank-and-file members to literally kill themselves for the leaders’ comfort and ego. >

Weight it by income and you see a tiered system. >

Exactly. It's that most people can't afford to take time off of work and they can't afford to get their medical needs and mental health needs taken care of. 
The vast majority of Americans are working more than 40 hours a week and a good portion of them are working two to three jobs exactly why do we think this has anything to do with BMI? Oh right because conservatives love personal responsibility instead of actually admitting the system is the problem. >

I will do my part by living to 116 to help balance that out. >

I'm not surprised. Add the insane rate of people going homeless due to economic hardship and lack of healthcare, that number is just gonna keep coming down. It's not profitable to keep people alive for longer, and the U.S. being die hard capitalism run by a couple mega corporations does not care about the life expectancy of us pesants. >

Trump killed more fascists than any other American in history. >

It couldn’t possibly be because of not having socialized healthcare, right? >_> >

It's definitely not (at least not significantly).  Americans have long lived unhealthier lifestyles than other westerners due to demographics, choices and practical differences. >

not being able to afford healthcare is a pretty good way to die early.  Go on, check how many deaths were caused this year not being able to afford their insulin. I bet it’s more than zero without even googling it. >

It is neither as good nor common as redittors like to believe. >

It’s more common than most people believe. I have enough personal experience both from working in healthcare and needing it. If you think affordable healthcare isn’t a problem in the U.S, you are either extremely privileged or delusional >

I never said it was THE most important. But it is definitely a factor. 
Edit: It’s considered the least important but it’s the easiest one to fix. And I dunno, people having their health taken care of seems like it would lead to living a longer life. Better education would help too. >


I never said it was THE most important. But it is definitely a factor.

Right: a relatively small factor.  Hence my point that people think it is bigger than it really is.  Hence why you initially bringing it up without qualifier that you recognize it isn't significant is incongruent with your backtracking now. >

We should all take this news as a challenge: take care of oneself, eat healthy, exercise, manage stress, and sleep enough. Doing so provides a good example for your peers (and/or kids), and you can take pride in knowing that you beat the national average. >

Again it's nothing to do with personal responsibility and everything to do with the system. If you want to actually change this we actually have to tackle it at a system level. >

No that's wrong. The majority is due to issues that are personal choices including drugs, diet, cars and guns. Those account for almost all of the difference between the Us and other developed nations.
... and new for this decade, vaccination status. >

These numbers are alarming and aren’t taken seriously. If there’s any statistic that should wake people up to start looking into moving into another country this is it. >

Ignoring that obesity has dramatically grown in the past 2 decades, one of the biggest risk factors to overall health and your ability to fight off sickness. 
The majority of COVID deaths were of the old and obese too. Not to mention many people turned to drugs because of the lockdown. I know I developed alcoholism and probably would've developed liver problem if I didn't stop earlier this year. I also gained 30lbs which put me nearly at obesity level. That's when I knew I had to stop, well that and throwing up blood for the first time. Had I continued I would probably be part of that statistic and dragging it down for everyone. But I intend to live a healthy life for myself. >


Not to mention many people turned to drugs because of the lockdown.

What lockdown? We didn't lock down here in the United States. >

They’re spewing talking points. “Lockdowns are the real killer. You don’t need to worry about Covid unless you’re old and fat anyway” >

One of my clients died. He was in his early 50s and ran marathons. When I brought this up during the height of the pandemic I'd get downvoted to hell. >

There used to be a lot more propagandists and bots on all social media (Twitter especially). There are still plenty, but their number has diminished. Unfortunately, the damage has been done and there are plenty of actual people who let themselves be poisoned. They carry on a lot of the work. >

From article:

U.S. life expectancy continued its steady, alarming decline in 2021, as covid-19 and illegal drugs took the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans, according to final government data released Thursday.  
Notably, every age group in the U.S. — from young children to seniors 85 and older — saw a rise in its death rate. Men, women and most racial groups lost ground. In some previous years, even when overall life expectancy declined, some groups advanced.  
Life expectancy in the U.S. dropped to 76.4 years at birth, down from 77 in 2020. The data reinforces a trend line of American longevity declining relative to that of its peer nations. A child born in the United States in 2019, for instance, could expect to live to 78.5, according to the World Health Organization, while a Japanese child born that year had a life expectancy of 84.5, Belgians lived to 81.4 and Swedes lived to 82.4. >

So many Americans will read this and shrug. They will either think, "Good, let the poors and stupids die off already." Or they will think, "Good, I don't want to live till I am 80 anyway."
It isn't just 70-somethings dying, though.  Or poors.  Or stupids. >

Most people dying from covid right now are actually elderly vaccinated people (most people in the US are vaccinated, so not surprising that most deaths would be to vaccinated people). Not that the vaccine caused this but it’s no longer politically related. No one cares anymore—it’s just part of life now. >

I'm not a researcher, but I'd expect that:


2000-2001 deaths are the major contributor to a drop in life expectancy (politics)


2002+ vaccinated/Omicron deaths represent a much smaller uptick in overall death rates, and are not what drove down life expectancy >

We are averaging about 400 deaths and 70,000 cases per day in the US right now, so not negligible. But it was quite low for most of this year. >

Life expectancy is a socialist propaganda metric created by our enemies to undermine our Freedoms and Democracy™
The correct standard is market-adjusted life years normalized to gross-margin per dollar >

Death in service to the ~~Emperor~~ Economy is its own reward >

I wish they would do more than give a one size fits all life expectancy. 
Yes - a million folks died from Covid. It pulled down the overall life expectancy. But most were unvaccinated. 
Why can’t we show life expectancies for anti-vaxxers vs. vaccinated folks, or life expectancy for folks who have a college degree vs. folks who don’t. Or life expectancy by BMI. 
Maybe then we’d start to realize as a society how harmful being an uneducated, unhealthy, anti-vaxx cretin is. >

Probably because if you look across a society and some people are living longer while others are dying so much younger that it pulls the whole average down, it starts to look like a two-tiered society in which many are sacrificed for others to thrive.
Don’t mistake this for a defense of the anti-vax movement. It isn’t. The failures of modern American society are multi-polar, though, and include education, access, lack of other resources, and profoundly anti-human political movements. The most frustrating thing about the anti-vax movement is how the leaders convinced the rank-and-file members to literally kill themselves for the leaders’ comfort and ego. >

Weight it by income and you see a tiered system. >

Exactly. It's that most people can't afford to take time off of work and they can't afford to get their medical needs and mental health needs taken care of. 
The vast majority of Americans are working more than 40 hours a week and a good portion of them are working two to three jobs exactly why do we think this has anything to do with BMI? Oh right because conservatives love personal responsibility instead of actually admitting the system is the problem. >

I will do my part by living to 116 to help balance that out. >

I'm not surprised. Add the insane rate of people going homeless due to economic hardship and lack of healthcare, that number is just gonna keep coming down. It's not profitable to keep people alive for longer, and the U.S. being die hard capitalism run by a couple mega corporations does not care about the life expectancy of us pesants. >

Trump killed more fascists than any other American in history. >

It couldn’t possibly be because of not having socialized healthcare, right? >_>