This One Statistic Shows The U.S. Is In Serious Decline
I believe that the U.S. has crises on various levels: record illegal immigration, record spending, perception of weakness around the world and deterioration of traditional social norms—however, another parameter that doesn't bode well for a country's future is life expectancy. In America, life expectancy has been dropping dramatically and is related to other factors that have a dramatic impact. It's not something that started recently; it's been going on for decades..
The chart shows that in 1970, life expectancy in the U.S. and Australia were almost identical. They tracked closely, but around 1980, Australia’s life expectancy started to increase beyond that of America. Despite Covid and the vaccines, life expectancy has risen dramatically in Australia in 2019––pre-Covid, continuing to this day. Conversely, in America, 2019 saw a dramatic drop in life expectancy before COVID-19, unrelated to the vaccine.
We have been told that 1 million COVID-19 deaths were the likely cause of a decline in life expectancy in America. However, Australia similarly had COVID-19 deaths, but in addition, there was a substantial rate of excess mortality among the young. While the effects of Covid and the vaccine occurred in both countries, longevity in Australia has not been affected.
The drop in the U.S. has been from 78.8 years in 2019 to 77 in 2020 and 76.1 in 2022, erasing two decades of progress. The life expectancy for men is now 73.2 years, compared with women’s 79.1. It's is a considerable gap. With improved standards of living and technological advances, including improved health care, we would expect life expectancy to increase, not decrease.
In Australia today, life expectancy is 83.94, which puts the country in eighth place overall, with women living on average 85.3 years. At the same time, for males, it’s 81.2 years. America is in 41st place in the world, ranking it behind many countries with a supposedly lower standard of living. America is the last of the modernized Western countries concerning life expectancy. This is not the America of the 1950s and 60s. Even Turkey and China have higher life expectancies.
The U.S. spends so much on medical disease treatment, far exceeding any other country. Yet, what is the return on investment?
Pharmaceutical spending per capita in selected countries in 2022
The U.S. also spends the most on illicit drugs.
DALYs is an abbreviation for Disability-Adjusted Life Years, a theoretical unit of measure which represents the number of healthy years of life lost due to the use of illicit drugs, averaged across the country’s entire population.
No doubt factors such as crimes, suicides, fentanyl deaths and iatrogenic disease are having an impact on longevity. People are consuming a large cocktail of drugs. While the Covid vaccines have been a disaster, other drugs have contributed to premature deaths. Iatrogenic disease or illness caused by medication and surgical errors is the third leading cause of death, according to John Hopkins.
Covid showed us that the pharmaceutical industry has such a stranglehold on society that people are taking more, not less, medication. The adage more is better, does not apply when people are pumping drugs into a biological organism like the human body.
The result of a lower life expectancy is an unsustainable trend for a country in the future. It reduces the standard of living because lower life expectancy is associated with increasing morbidity, costing the economy more and more dollars.
America is an instant gratification society. It’s about hitting that homerun, the big fix, the magic bullet. An example was the COVID-19 vaccines—the belief that these products would magically create health. If you had to give the conventional medical and government protocol a score, the result is an F-.
A country like America is spending more on disease care when more spending should be on health care. The drug culture in America is pervasive. It leads to high levels of suicide, an increase in homicides and premature death due to the toxic brew of medications.
There even needs to be consideration for restricting drug advertising on TV. No other country pushes drugs through advertising the way the U.S. does. It programs people to get hooked on a lifetime of drug dependence. An answer is a holistic approach involving healthcare, instilling family values and the diminution of America’s violent culture.