NEW YORK (AP) — This is the deadliest year in U.S. history, with deaths expected to top 3 million for the first time — due mainly to the coronavirus pandemic.
To say that the U.S. is an unhealthy country is to sharply underestimate our problems.
Rona, opioid deaths, widespread obesity and heart disease, and a spiritual void that yawns darkly from sea to shining sea make this a place no one should be proud of.
Remember the wild backlash when Michelle Obama tried to instill healthy eating and exercise habits in our national culture? I can’t forget.
“But life expectancy for 2020 could end up dropping as much as three full years…”
Bingo. That’s why it happened. Three million less SS payments for the wealthy to worry about. Its why we are in this boat. Ageism is the one form of accepted bias in our society.
It’s not everyday that you can confidently name the person responsible for a large percentage of increased deaths. Whether it’s 300,00 or 30,00, Trump has left his mark as one of the most successful murderers, of his own people no less, in history. Quite an achievement. One for which he will never feel guilt, because it’s never ever his fault.
What do you expect? You lock up people for a year for no good reason for a year, of course they are going to kick the bucket. I wonder how many go asphyxiated by the mask that tyrannical state governors mandated.
We have been and are continuing to loose the same number of people who died in the World Trade Center terrorist act on a daily basis to covid-19, and President Trump and his entire Administration are quiet. All he’s doing is acting in more extreme and irrational ways. Can this really be part of an exit strategy (or a poor effort based on his poor hand) of his - to act in such a dangerous way that he feels he can negotiate an exit without any legal challenge to him and his family once they leave office? Meanwhile, people die because they believed his lies.