Articles like this are very frustrating to me. They keep talking about the pandemic in the past tense, as if all the deleterious effects of COVID-19 must have disappeared by now. The reality is that the pandemic never went away. This disease, that causes damage to basically all your biology systems, has been running unmitigated through our population since 2022. And yet we’re to credulously wonder why there is an increase in deaths for millennials and Gen Z? This is a fucking Tim Robinson hotdog meme of an article.
To be fair, pretty much all western nations let covid rip through the population, yet mortality in the US is higher than elsewhere. So, it can’t be just covid alone.
Strange that there’s excess death during an ongoing pandemic in the only industrialized nation that doesn’t have socialized health care, right? COVID-19 has exacerbated the problems with the US’s feeble health infrastructure to such a point that we have these countless “unexplainable” deaths.
Sure, lack of socialized healthcare is a huge part of it, but there are other many other compounding factors as well. Lack of sick leave, unhealthy lifestyle, car culture, nutrition, psychological alienation, etc. The pandemic acted as an accelerant feeding on all these festering problems.
If their data ends in 2023, it’s likely still a pretty big chunk of it. Florida was open for business by July 2020, they were fighting mask mandates by the fall. I don’t think any western nation let it rip as fast as we did. Most held back until they had the majority of their population vaxxed. Gotta figure we’ve basically got a couple year start on the rest of the western world.
Articles like this are very frustrating to me. They keep talking about the pandemic in the past tense, as if all the deleterious effects of COVID-19 must have disappeared by now. The reality is that the pandemic never went away. This disease, that causes damage to basically all your biology systems, has been running unmitigated through our population since 2022. And yet we’re to credulously wonder why there is an increase in deaths for millennials and Gen Z? This is a fucking Tim Robinson hotdog meme of an article.
To be fair, pretty much all western nations let covid rip through the population, yet mortality in the US is higher than elsewhere. So, it can’t be just covid alone.
Strange that there’s excess death during an ongoing pandemic in the only industrialized nation that doesn’t have socialized health care, right? COVID-19 has exacerbated the problems with the US’s feeble health infrastructure to such a point that we have these countless “unexplainable” deaths.
Sure, lack of socialized healthcare is a huge part of it, but there are other many other compounding factors as well. Lack of sick leave, unhealthy lifestyle, car culture, nutrition, psychological alienation, etc. The pandemic acted as an accelerant feeding on all these festering problems.
Exactly. All the things you mentioned are part of health infrastructure.
reminds me of how Tim Faust uses the term “social determinants of health”
If their data ends in 2023, it’s likely still a pretty big chunk of it. Florida was open for business by July 2020, they were fighting mask mandates by the fall. I don’t think any western nation let it rip as fast as we did. Most held back until they had the majority of their population vaxxed. Gotta figure we’ve basically got a couple year start on the rest of the western world.
You also have the (now explicitly) government supported anti vax movement that don’t think really exists elsewhere.
Florida’s Surgeon General has been anti-vaxx since 2021.
I don't understand, we beat covid and we have more dispensaries and casinos than ever before, why aren't people living longer?