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Aug 31, 2022 - Health

COVID drives U.S. life expectancy down nearly a full year

Life expectancy at birth in the U.S. declined nearly a year from 2020 to 2021, according to new provisional data from the CDC.

Why it matters: It's the latest evidence of the toll the COVID pandemic took on Americans' health and takes the U.S. life expectancy at birth to its lowest level — 76.1 years — since 1996.

Together with recent data showing life expectancy fell 1.8 years between 2019 and 2020, that means life expectancy at birth fell by 2.7 years over two years — the largest two-year decline since 1921–1923.

https://www.axios.com/2022/08/31/covid- ... expectancy

I wonder what happened in 1921-1923.

Higgenbotham wrote: Sun Sep 04, 2022 5:07 pm

Aug 31, 2022 - Health

COVID drives U.S. life expectancy down nearly a full year

Life expectancy at birth in the U.S. declined nearly a year from 2020 to 2021, according to new provisional data from the CDC.

Why it matters: It's the latest evidence of the toll the COVID pandemic took on Americans' health and takes the U.S. life expectancy at birth to its lowest level — 76.1 years — since 1996.

Together with recent data showing life expectancy fell 1.8 years between 2019 and 2020, that means life expectancy at birth fell by 2.7 years over two years — the largest two-year decline since 1921–1923.

https://www.axios.com/2022/08/31/covid- ... expectancy

The injections will further plummet it. Covid didn't do it itself, what happened was that the covid response stopped people from getting cardiovascular or cancer treatments. In the next 5 years you'll see the jabbed lose a lot more on that mortality scale, I'm sad to say.

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I am betting on Bitcoin and Gold going up and the S&P, TLT, and Yen going down.
The Yen is going my way.
The others are good entry points.

vincecate wrote: Thu Sep 08, 2022 2:46 pm I am betting on Bitcoin and Gold going up and the S&P, TLT, and Yen going down.
The Yen is going my way.
The others are good entry points. :-)

Gold has a history of protecting against inflation i.e. it rises with inflation. BUT it has disappointed this time for reasons I can't figure out. It may delight on a lag, and it might not. I have also bet on gold and wondering if it will pay off? You may be right about a good entry points. I have also bet on SP500 going down

richard5za wrote: Fri Sep 09, 2022 3:12 am Gold has a history of protecting against inflation i.e. it rises with inflation. BUT it has disappointed this time for reasons I can't figure out. It may delight on a lag, and it might not. I have also bet on gold and wondering if it will pay off?

There are new Jan 2025 LEAP options coming out on Monday. I expect to get some on gold or silver. Up till now most people think this inflation is just going to quickly go away. Sometime in the next 2.3 years I think people will realize inflation is an ongoing problem and there is real risk the dollar goes into hyperinflation. At a minimum central banks all around the world should be selling their long term treasuries and buying gold as reserves. But there is also a good chance the general public piles into gold. In the 1970s they did and there was far less risk to the dollar then. If I am right, gold will go up measured in dollars. I really think Jan 2025 should be enough time. Will try it.

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