the life expectancy of the United States will never go up again. any rebound will happen under a dramatically different system of government and economy
It’s not just covid either. More people will die of covid this year than died last year (when more died than the year before) of course, but the unrelenting pressure of mass death on a hospital system in freefall is also making everything ELSE deadlier. You’re more likely to die on the road than last year, you’re more likely to die of an overdose than last year, nearly every cause of death is up up up
I have to admit I definitely thought it was gonna be the unwavering devotion to energy as a commodity that killed the US first but health as a commodity got in under the wire of major us cities being underwater