Deaths and Life Expectancy

After tanking during the epidemic years, according to the esteemed (that’s a joke) CDC, life expectancy rose in the US last year, although not back to pre-epidemic levels.  Data is considered final for 2021 and provisional for 2022.  Life expectancy generally means the years of life an infant could expect if the cohort they were born in experienced the age adjusted death rates prevalent at the time of birth.  A lot of old and near-old people died during the epidemic, which dropped life expectancy substantially.  This along with homicides, suicides and drug overdoses has kept US life expectancy below that of other Western countries for a long time.  In 2021 life expectancy was 76.4 and in 2022 77.5, which is a good jump.

Once more I have to point out the tremendous unaddressed inequity in regard to life expectancy, as females’ is 80.2 years while men are at a mere 74.8.  I continue to await the massive government program to fix this problem, which I will once suggest, since it is government, is most likely to involve shortening women’s lives as opposed to making men’s longer.  Asians have the longest life expectancy, by a good margin, followed by Hispanics, then whites, with African Americans and Native Americans at the rear.  I would suggest we also need a program to shorten Asian lives in the name of equity, since the government will be incapable of improving the health of the lagging groups.  I would note that these lagging groups recorded the greatest gains in life expectancy, while white persons, being demonized constantly, deservedly had the lowest.

Now for my friends who think the vax are killing every one, the report is very inconvenient, because if that were true, we wouldn’t see this increase in life expectancy.  And the data of death by cause doesn’t quite support that quackery either.  About 85% of the improvement is due to a decline in CV-19 deaths, as well as modest declines in deaths from heart disease, cancer, injuries and homicide; while those declines were somewhat offset by increases in deaths from pneumonia and flu, kidney disease and birth defects.  You will recall that CV-19 largely displaced flu during the epidemic, so the return of those viruses is not unexpected.   (CDC Report)