You may be disappointed with all of the unrest and negative outcomes we’ve been seeing during the Biden administration thus far. Uncle Joe’s dismal approval ratings clearly suggest that many Americans feel that way. But there might be a bit of consolation for you in the latest report from the CDC. An increasing number of you might not live long enough to suffer through much more of it. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have released the American life expectancy figures for 2021 and they have dropped yet again. And we’re not talking about a couple of tenths of a decimal point here. After falling by almost two years in 2020, American life expectancy fell by just shy of another full year to 76 years and one month in 2021. What are they blaming this on? COVID, of course, but a host of other factors are involved as well.
So this is the lowest life expectancy the United States has seen since 1996. If you managed to innoculate more than three-quarters of the country with your fancy new vaccines and our life expectancy still dropped even further because of the disease you were “preventing,” I’d have some questions. Just sayin‘…
I’m sure there are some nihilists out there who see a declining average life span as a positive thing, but this is still quite worrisome. When you combine a shorter average life span with our continually plummeting birth rate, you have a formula for a society that will not be able to sustain itself over the long run. Read more…
