American life expectancy was already bad. Under Covid and the anti-vaccine movement, it's cratered.

[Professor Emeritus]

This graph is fukking crazy. The other lines represent the life expectancy in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

USA was already worse health than everywhere else. And then the first year of the pandemic hit us worse too. But the craziest shyt is that when vaccines became available, every other country rebounded in the 2nd year (outside of Japan, which mostly avoided the pandemic in 2020 and then was hit mildly in 2021). But in the USA, which had the largest anti-vaccine movement, life expectancy just kept dropping. Not as much as in the first year but the places who just went out and got vaccines all rebounded, while we only slowed the bleeding.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

For black folk, the drop was even worse. As of 2019, life expectancy for Black Americans had increased to 74.8 years. By 2021, the average life length of a Black American had dropped a full 4 years.

Key Data on Health and Health Care by Race and Ethnicity | KFF

This analysis examines how people of color fare compared to White people across 64 measures of health, health care, and social determinants of health using the most recent data available from federal surveys and administrative sets as well as the 2023 KFF Survey on Racism, Discrimination, and...

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Provisional data from 2021 show that overall life expectancy across all racial/ethnic groups was 76.1 years (Figure 14). Life expectancy for Black people was only 70.8 years compared to 76.4 years for White people and 77.7 years for Hispanic people. It was highest for Asian people at 83.5 years and lowest for AIAN people who had a life expectancy of 65.2 years. Life expectancies were even lower for Black and AIAN males, at 66.7 and 61.5 years, respectively. Overall life expectancy declined by 2.7 years between 2019 and 2021, with AIAN people experiencing the largest life expectancy decline of 6.6 years, followed by Hispanic and Black people (4.2 and 4.0 years, respectively), and a smaller decline of 2.4 years for White people. Asian people had the smallest decline in life expectancy of 2.1 years between 2019 and 2021. These declines largely reflect an increase in excess deaths due to COVID-19, which disproportionately impacted Black, Hispanic, and AIAN people.

Overall life expectancy drops by ethnic groups between 2019 and 2021:

Asian: lost 2.1 years (85.6 to 83.5)
Hispanic: lost 4.2 years (81.9 to 77.7)
White: lost 2.4 years (78.8 to 76.4)
Black: lost 4.0 years (74.8 to 70.8)
Native: lost 6.6 years ( 71.8 to 65.2)


Total life expectancy for all Americans dropped 2.7 years, from 78.8 to 76.1.

 

[Henri Christophe]

Black: lost 4.0 years (74.8 to 70.8)

Still higher than most black nations in the world

Y'all be aight

 

[Afro]

Still higher than most black nations in the world

Y'all be aight

Numbers trending down means we will not be alright

 

[JuvenileHell]

anti-vaxxers are scum

 

[Harry Sax]

nikka I finally caught COVID about a month ago…shyt had me feelin like I was finna check on up outta here

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Still higher than most black nations in the world

Y'all be aight

Be proud of having higher life expectancies than 3rd-world countries with comparatively rudimentary health care systems and little social safety net?


As of 2020, life expectancy is Cuba was 79 years. That's over EIGHT YEARS higher than the life expectancy for Black Americans. In fukking Cuba!

Life expectancy is between 75-80 years in Czechia, Lebanon, Poland, Estonia, Panama, Croatia, Albania, Oman, UAE, Turkey, Uruguay, Slovakia, Bosnia, Thailand, Columbia, Ecuador, Sri Lanka, China, Peru, Tunisia, Iran, Hungary, Argentina, Malaysia, Brazil, Romania, Serbia, Lithuania, Brunei, Syria, Honduras, Kuwait, Vietnam, Latvia, Saudia Arabia, Armenia, Mauritius, Bulgaria, Mexico, Nicaragua, Belarus, Belize, Guatemala, and Jordan all have life expectancy between 75-80 years as of 2020. Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Bahamas, and Trinidad are just a shade under 75 years.

It's fukking shameful that Black American life expectancy is barely 70 years in a country with the resources of the USA. And while a huge part of that drop was Covid (partially due to how Covid exacerbated previous health disparities, and partially due to vaccine hesitancy and reluctance to trust public health measures), it clearly isn't the full or even the main reason.

 

[JUSTIN HERBERT]

sheeet im a real ass nukka , age over 35 with flabby man t*ts and a non beer gut.


how many years i got?

 

[TheKongoEmpire]

For black folk, the drop was even worse. As of 2019, life expectancy for Black Americans had increased to 74.8 years. By 2021, the average life length of a Black American had dropped a full 4 years.

Key Data on Health and Health Care by Race and Ethnicity | KFF

This analysis examines how people of color fare compared to White people across 64 measures of health, health care, and social determinants of health using the most recent data available from federal surveys and administrative sets as well as the 2023 KFF Survey on Racism, Discrimination, and...

www.kff.org

Overall life expectancy drops by ethnic groups between 2019 and 2021:

Asian: lost 2.1 years (85.6 to 83.5)
Hispanic: lost 4.2 years (81.9 to 77.7)
White: lost 2.4 years (78.8 to 76.4)
Black: lost 4.0 years (74.8 to 70.8)
Native: lost 6.6 years ( 71.8 to 65.2)


Total life expectancy for all Americans dropped 2.7 years, from 78.8 to 76.1.

You had some guys so nutty they actually think that this is fake. Sad state of affairs.

 

[jdubnyce]

Stay up to date with all vaccines
Routine checkups
Eat a more healthy balanced diet
Reduce sugars, trans/saturated fats
Exercise in some capacity
Laugh

Wishing all brehs/brehettes health, wealth and prosperity

 

[jdubnyce]

sheeet im a real ass nukka , age over 35 with flabby man t*ts and a non beer gut.


how many years i got?

You dead in 5

 

[JUSTIN HERBERT]

You dead in 5

forreal ? what i gotta do first ? im willing to change my life over those 4 words you posted.

 

[jdubnyce]

forreal ? what i gotta do first ? im willing to change my life over those 4 words you posted.

Stay up to date with all vaccines
Routine checkups
Eat a more healthy balanced diet
Reduce sugars, trans/saturated fats
Exercise in some capacity
Laugh

Wishing all brehs/brehettes health, wealth and prosperity

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Stay up to date with all vaccines
Routine checkups
Eat a more healthy balanced diet
Reduce sugars, trans/saturated fats
Exercise in some capacity
Laugh

Wishing all brehs/brehettes health, wealth and prosperity

All of those are great. I would add:

Reduce your commute and the amount of time you spend in traffic
Find a community of people to hang out with regularly who reduce your stress and help you feel good about life
Get out in nature regularly
If you live in a high-pollution neighborhood, consider moving

 

[Professor Emeritus]

sheeet im a real ass nukka , age over 35 with flabby man t*ts and a non beer gut.


how many years i got?

It ain't even how many years you got, it's how many healthy years. Maybe you'll have a heart attack/stroke in your 40s and 50s or maybe not, but do you want to be living with diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, etc.?

@jdubnyce posted some great suggestions and I added to them. I'd say diet, stress, and environmental exposure (especially air pollution) are the top three factors.