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The decline in life expectancy for US males is unique in the rich world, sharply bringing down overall US life expectancy. The causes are largely covid, opioids

• hotpotamus 3y ago
  It was a strange realization growing up in America that at some point American Exceptionalism had begun to mean learned helplessness. I'm told repeatedly that those factors are unsolvable problems of humanity and there is nothing the government can do to ameliorate them. As you say, the evidence of the other countries would seem to contradict this, yet that never seems to matter.