U.S. Life Expectancy Fell By 1.5 Years In 2020, The Biggest Drop Since WW II:
Life expectancy in the United States declined by a year and a half in 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which says the coronavirus is largely to blame.
COVID-19 contributed to 74% of the decline in life expectancy from 78.8 years in 2019 to 77.3 years in 2020, according to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.
It was the largest one-year decline since World War II, when life expectancy dropped by 2.9 years between 1942 and 1943. Hispanic and Black communities saw the biggest declines.
[...] "The range of factors that play into this include income inequality, the social safety net, as well as racial inequality and access to health care," Curtis said.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @08:27PM (8 children)
Not to mention the risk of businesses getting looted and burned to the ground, like what can happen when there are "mostly peaceful" protests.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday July 21 2021, @09:01PM (7 children)
True, but I reckon the first group--you know, the vulture capitalist types like Bain Capital and all the other "equity" firms?--do a lot more damage overall. We can deal with the looting on the ground after we go after the Romneys and Trumps of the world, I say.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @09:34PM
The ecosystem functions better when you have animals, plants, fungi and blood-sucking parasites all in balance. The Romneys and Trumps, like ticks, provide a repository for viruses and bacteria that would otherwise be lost, harming diversity.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday July 22 2021, @10:56AM (5 children)
I think you probably ought to try to show that the vulture capitals do "damage" overall. For a glaring example of how this reckoning fails, I doubt the entirety of the vulture capitalist ecosystem has done as much damage as the 1967 Detroit riots.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday July 22 2021, @05:39PM (4 children)
Okay, but your gut feelings mean shit. Numbers. Back up that claim or shut the fuck up.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 22 2021, @10:48PM (2 children)
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. If you want numbers so bad, why don't you start?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday July 23 2021, @01:22AM (1 child)
You make the claim, you back it up.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 23 2021, @08:42PM
Looking forward to you backing up your claim [soylentnews.org], then.
You've got no room to complain about people contradicting you when they provided just as much evidence as you (0=0), you toxic little dingbat.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday July 26 2021, @01:00AM
How about this? No city has dropped in population by almost a factor of three due to vulture capitalists. In fact, if someone had been recycling dying capital and property back in the 1960s and 1970s, Detroit might be in a lot better shape now (abandoned property is a large contributor to the problems of Detroit today).
While Detroit has been in decline [biggestuscities.com] since 1950, there were two decades in which Detroit lost 20% or more of its population (as measured by the US Census). The first was 1970-1980 when it dropped from 1.5 million to 1.2 million, right after those 1967 riots. (The second was 2000-2010 when it dropped from over 900k to a bit over 700k.)
Even more telling, the Detroit metropolitan area peaked in 1970 (with a second, lower peak in 2000). That coincides well with the riots and their aftereffects.