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Journal by DeathMonkey
But I am perfectly fine with the US hoarding our vaxxes until every American has had the opportunity to get them.
Those companies are free to sell to whomever they want but we got our orders in early and we're currently first in line.
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All this time I've been VIEWING a RUSSIAN MIDGET SODOMIZE a HOUSECAT!
(Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday March 11 2021, @09:33PM (7 children)
We managed to reverse 33 years of progress in a single year. Nothing alarming there!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 11 2021, @09:35PM (1 child)
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday March 11 2021, @11:18PM
He didn't say which 33 years
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday March 11 2021, @09:37PM (4 children)
Well, if you want to reverse that death rate trend, you can start procreating. We have a lopsided population today, with a lot of old people, and few young people. If you care to pull up Japan's historical death rates, you're certain to see the same thing happening there. Old people have a high death rate, it's a well known fact of life.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 11 2021, @09:51PM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 12 2021, @08:18PM
This is not accurate. It depends on exactly who is measuring (e.g. the UN and CDC give slightly different results) but the US reached its peak life expectancy sometime from 2010-2015 and it's been on a slight downward trend since. Keep in mind the headlines about US life expectancy increasing for the first time in 4 years (back in 2018) were about a year-over-year increase, not an increase over what we reached previously.
I think people mistake why life expectancy increased in the past. It's not because medical technology improved, for the most part, but really simple stuff: clean food, clean water, no wars killing off 3% of the Earth's population at a time, transition away from higher risk manual labor, declines in smoking, and stuff along these lines. Medical technology that wasn't present 40 years ago has had a very small overall effect. This is why when you look at the list [wikipedia.org] of countries by life expectancy lots of countries you might not expect are ahead of the US: Slovenia, Greece, Kuwait, Costa Rica, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Panama, Croatia, Turkey, etc. Or for instance why Cyprus has the 6th highest life expectancy in the world.
And similarly the reason Japan is the longest lived is not because of some incredible medical technology but because they're willing to consider things we never would for instance the Metabo Law. Individuals over the age of 40 are regularly measured, and employers/local governments are fined for employees/citizens who have larger than regulated waistlines - 80cm for men, 90cm for women. And individuals who overweight are sent to counseling and retraining. And it works, obviously. But it requires the sort of culture that cares more about reality than ideology. We're, by contrast, going in the exact opposite direction and doing everything we can to make people feel okay about being fat - and we're paying the price for it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 14 2021, @06:55AM (1 child)
You are truly a horrible person. You worship death, and you seek to solve this deficiency by enslaving women. May the fate you wish on others take you to your next life.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 15 2021, @05:44AM
Let's lay Runaway1956 pregnant in this life, eh? Chained to the kitchen stove, to cook for all of us. By God, pregnant or not, Runaway1956 may actually like it.