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Dr. James H. Gundlach
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Retired Sociology/Demography professor. I know the United States has an awfully high middle aged death rate. My goal is to explain it well enough to get people to fix it.
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pecanjim.bsky.social
Here I look at the bi-variate effect of state percent Southern Baptist on death rates. While these numbers may appear high in light of the size of the Southern Baptist population, their effect on a states death rate is not limited to them. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #News #Think
First some background. The Southern Baptist gained the ability to offer their own health care and insurance system as a rider on the Obama Care legislation. Over the years they have offered very economical health insurance that can be cheap because it includes prayer, a very cheap and ineffective treatment, for health care. An additional note is that promoting prayer for care is not limited to the Southern Baptist population. When a practicing Southern Baptist knows a non member who is having health problems, if that non member cannot afford care they may well rely of their neighbor's prayer for cure. The research problem is that we have no way to measure the extent prayer is used for health care in the United States. Now to regression analysis results looking at state percent Southern Baptist and state death rates: r = 0.66 2,788,934 297,034 b = 5.17 pct 9.6 a = 867.21 Using the above regression results I was able to estimate that the additional deaths related to the state percent Southern Baptist was about 297,034 in 2023, that was 9.6% of the United States in 2023 total number of deaths, 3,085,968. I feel every Southern Baptist church needs to post "Prayer does not cure!" on their announcement signs everyone one driving past the church can read. But I have lost count of the things I would like to see done to save lives that there is absolutely no chance that they would ever happen. I am ending with the regression results predicting state under age 1 death rates from state percent Southern Baptist: r = 0.71 b = 5.11 a = 461.20 The a = 461.2 is the predicted infant death rate for the hypothetical state with no Southern Baptist. The b = 5.11 means it goes up to 461.2+(5.11*100) or 972.2. This last number is the only estimate of the Southern Baptist infant mortality rate I can come up with.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
pecanjim.bsky.social
A major thing about low wage workers that is being missed in the news is how much food stamps actually support our low minimum wage. For example the United States minimum wage is 62.5% of Canada's. Our food stamps let our low paying employers pay less. 🧪☠️ #Sociology #Population #News #Think
November 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
pecanjim.bsky.social
Here is a refined version of the kind of graph that I have posted five times before. Here a dot does not represent the value of x and y for data, it shows the value of r, the correlation, between year and single year age death rates. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #Think #News
For the United States, life expectancy increased from 76.7 in 1999 to 78.9 in 2019. That does not look bad. But, it does not tell you that the trend changed from very consistent declines for our 17 year olds to very consistent increases for when they live to be 30 year olds. Now that pattern is the same for all three party groups of states. But for the late middle aged, the major party differences emerge. To put it simply, living in Democratic voting states is a hell of lot better for the late middle aged. A major problem with this graph is that it displays the values of the correlation, r, between year and death rates and a substantial part of our adult population not only don't understand r's they are afraid of them. If you feel you are in this group, here is an easy way to understand this graph displaying r's. If the dot is high, like those around age 30, that means those death rates very consistently increased over this time. If they are right at halfway up the graph that means they went down as much as they went up and if they are down at the bottom of the graph they consistently went down over time. Now one problem is it doesn't show how much they changed. The problem with showing how much they changed is that the major consistent thing about death rates is they go up with age and when you deal with single measures, they are dominated by changes in elderly deaths. The other problem is the standard measure is life expectancy, this is simply the age by which half the people die. The 1999 life expectancy of 76.7 does not go up when younger age groups deaths increase. And a death at age 75 changes life expectancy the same amount as a death at age 1. Our health care for the elderly has improved while a lot of our health care for the middle ages has gone down. How? One way is capitalist health insurance has moved to prior approval for their dominated population's health care. This is an unmeasured lack of adequate health care is killing them early.
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
pecanjim.bsky.social
I wonder how many people know that our public schools, k through 12, colleges and university are socialist parts of our economy? That is why the Republicans, especially Trump, are trying to kill them.🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #population #Think #News
November 4, 2025 at 4:18 AM
pecanjim.bsky.social
Here are two graphs showing the changes in death rates by party state votes for in presidential elections for non-Hispanic Whites aged 20-54 and 65-84. See text for descriptions and explanations. I wonder who Everyone hits?🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #Think #News #Everyone
This graph shows the death rates for non-Hispanic Whites aged 20-54 broken down by party the state the dead lived in has regularly voted for. The data used to make the dots are below.this text. The last year of data is dominated by the the deaths caused by COVID during the first year. In the United States we have conducted a natural experiment by turning over payment for health care for the middle aged to capitalist health insurance and payment for health care for the elderly to socialist medicare and the capitalist clone of it to Medicaid. Now the populations covered by Medicare and Medicaid or not identified in mortality data so the only comparison our data makes available are between middle aid health care that is regulated by state government and the elderly care which has socialist care for a big portion of our elderly with a growing portion covered by the capitalist clone. In general the middle aged Non-Hispanic Whites in Republican voting states have generally doubled the amount that their death rates are higher than their peers in Democratic voting states. At the same time, the mixed party states moved from essentially being tied with the Democratic voting states to very close to half way between the Democratic and Republican voting states. Here are the data: Year Dem Rep Mixed 1999 190.8 227.3 190.3 2000 192.6 234.5 196.9 2001 204 241.9 201.2 2002 203.1 250 206.5 2003 202.9 256 207.3 2004 202 255.5 207.8 2005 203 262.6 214.5 2006 204.7. 266.7 215 2007 201.5 264.4 213.5 2008 198.9 267.8 216.6 2009 200.8 270 218.4 2010 192.3 268.4 216.5 2011 194.8 270.2 221.5 2012 193 267.1 216.7 2013 193 264.4 220.6 2014 194.7 268.8 219.5 2015 196.3 273.8 227.8 2016 203.1 282.5 239.7 2017 201.8 281.1 243.4 2018 197.8 275.3 231.3 2019 195.5 270.7 225.9 2020 221.4 313 256.8 This graph displays the age 65-84 deaths per 100,000 by states grouped by the party they vote for. I am posting it to show how our elderly death rates have gone down by all three party groups. The most noticeable thing is that party differences barely existed when this graph starts but grew in a slight imitation of the middle aged pattern shown in the first graph. The important thing is these changes show declining death rates while the middle age only shows changes that are increases. The best the middle age does is the Democratic voting states almost holding on to earlier death rates. The two graphs clearly show that capitalist health care KILLS. The question is: What is causing the elderly in non-Democratic states to increasingly show higher and higher death rates? I have some ideas about how it could be going on but I haven't found any way to test any of them. I consider the one that suggests this is simply a result of the denied care during middle age. I believe it is caused by damages caused by lack of health care during the middle age years to leave their bodies weakened and more likely to be killed by later health problems. But again I can't figure out how to find data to test that hypothesis. Anyway, here is the same kind of data for the elderly that the first one presented for age 20-54. I have found that Bluesky does not let you copy data, If you would like a copy to play with, just email me at pecanjim@bellsouth.net and I will send a copy to the email address requesting it. Year Dem Rep Mixed 1999 3732 3783 3806 2000 3675 3770 3767 2001 3629 3722 3708 2002 3606 3709 3693 2003 3538 3647 3621 2004 3405 3515 3510 2005 3363 3507 3489 2006 3269 3389 3358 2007 3165 3295 3259 2008 3092 3297 3243 2009 2952 3162 3092 2010 2889 3159 3070 2011 2855 3115 3035 2012 2723 3035 2925 2013 2680 3025 2880 2014 2610 2977 2839 2015 2608 2971 2837 2016 2556 2925 2768 2017 2540 2949 2774 2018 2499 2932 2750 2019 2466 2904 2723 2020 2784 3259 3062
November 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
pecanjim.bsky.social
Trump is not supporting the real reason for food stamps. It is to keep under paid workers alive and workin for wages that make their bosses a lot more money. Why is Trump undoing it? My guess is the Russian brains directing him want to cause chaos in the United States. 🧪 #Sociology #Population
October 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Reposted by Dr. James H. Gundlach
scarfy.bsky.social
What will happen to the stats? I'm very interested in watching it grow. Will it not be tracked anymore?
September 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Reposted by Dr. James H. Gundlach
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November 9, 2024 at 11:08 PM
pecanjim.bsky.social
Here I compare the effect of state percent Hispanic and percent of state vote for Trump on state firearm murder rates. I have done this because I see our public unaware of Trump's lies about how criminal Hispanics are. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #Think #News #Hello
This scatter plot shows the relationship between state percent Hispanic, the population President Trump is saying they are so bad that they need to be gotten rid of. I think this is the weakest statistical relationship I have shown in the more than 200 I have displayed here. Now look at the next graph, the same kind of graph but comparing the last election's state vote for Trump against the state firearm homicide rate. Here you can see that there is a weak statistical relationship between the percent of the state vote for Trump in the last presidential election and the state firearm homicide rate in 2022 and 2023 together. The more of the state voters voting for Trump, the higher the state firearm homicide rate. Now, Trump and other Republicans are pro gun sales, they do what the gun industry wants which leads to a higher gun death rate in states that Trump got more votes in. So Trump's reason for going after Hispanics is just another one of his too many lies to count. Just a side note on another one of his lies, the recently cleared area next to the US capitol is being set up to build a much larger building than the proposed super luxury dining room, he clearly has plans to do more than he is telling the public. Enough written, we hare headed on a week long trip tomorrow so I want to get this posted.
October 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
pecanjim.bsky.social
Here is one from memory:
After synthetic car oils were available we bought two non-hydraulic valve Honda's and after break-in oil we ran one on petro-oil and the other on synthetic. Petro made 42,000 and synthetic 158,000 miles before valve adjust was needed, .001+ gaps. 🧪 #Sociology #Auto #Oil
October 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
pecanjim.bsky.social
A re-do: If Trump let the builders build it logically, the lounge unit would be built first then the connection would be built last. He wanted to destroy as much of our old ways as much and as soon as possible. His goal is destroy the United States. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #Think #News
October 23, 2025 at 3:06 AM
pecanjim.bsky.social
As I look at the way Trump is having this built, He wanted to destroy the old White House the most. A logical way to built this is first built the lounge, then build the connection to the old white house. Trump wants to get us used to his destroying our way of life. He is EVIL!
October 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
pecanjim.bsky.social
In the earlier graph it showed that people aged 30 had the most solid increase in United States death rates from 1999 through 2023. Here those total death rates are broken down by the three parties. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #Think #News
Here the graph shows how the part of the United States population that has had the most solid increases in death rates from 1999 through 2023 has differed by political party. The major things I see in it is the move of the mixed party group from close to the Democratic voting states to close to the Republican voting states. In addition, the increases in all the death rates right after 2014 were pre-COVID and like so many of the other increases were weakest in Democratic voting states. The increases during COVID are substantial and tells me many more of the the people in the United States need to know that the few countries that had higher COVID death rates than the United States were not industrialized societies with a good supply of modern health care technology.
October 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
pecanjim.bsky.social
Single year age mortality data is back on line at wonder.cdc.gov. So rather than bitch about this data being deleted, here is my favorite graph using it. See text under larger graph for details. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #News #Think
This graph shows one of the ways that the United States is unique. Our young and old non-Hispanic whites have declining deaths rates from 1999 to 2023 but a big hunk of our middle aged have increasing death rates. Most of our young and old have 2023 death rates that are around 80% as high as they were in 1999 but as you move from age 16 to 30 that changes to a 169% as high. This pattern in changing death rates by age exists only in the United States! What is happening here is we have a capitalist health care delivery system that does not treat most of our ill who cannot afford to pay and people who their software predicts they will lose money on. Our young are primarily covered by private health insurance that in almost all the states are backed up by states paying for care, that is socialist, for the uninsured young. Those dot under the 100% level means it has succeeded in bring those death rates down. That line of dots going up after age 17 is caused by many of the people experiencing potentially fatal health problems not being able to afford care under the capitalist dominated part of our health care delivery system. In addition to a large part of your middle age population not having health insurance, the health insurance industry uses software created to to predict care people will need to deny care to people software predicts they will lose money on. After hitting that 169% change in the age specific death rate at age 30, the graph shows a consistently declining death rate that gets back down to 80% at age 65. Currently our CIA ranks the United States 49th in life expectancy, We should do better. End note: I have limited this data to non-Hispanic Whites because this group is the major political force in our country and when they see data for the country as a whole the Republicans among them are inclined to blame our high middle age death rates on death rates among our minorities rather than whites.
October 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
pecanjim.bsky.social
Just visited the CDC on line data source this morning, it was down last night. Trump's censors have ended the available data at 2016, data through 2023 was yesterday. I have previously downloaded some of the later data and will be posting some comparisons. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #News #Think
October 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
pecanjim.bsky.social
Here is a quick little post late in the day. It shows the COVID death rates for total populations of states grouped by party, blue for Democratic, red for Republicans and gray for mixed. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #Think #News
Just a few words. The Democratic voting states have the lowest rate for all years but the first when they have the highest. That is because COVID hit the east and west coast first, especially New York and California because they have the major areas relieving people coming from other countries. The difference during the later years are due to state differences in COVID vaccination rates. As a side note, we have a substantial under count of COVID deaths. I am trying to estimate under counted numbers and if I succeed, I will post a corrected graph.
October 16, 2025 at 3:32 AM
pecanjim.bsky.social
Here is a graph I intended to post about three months ago. It shows the death rates for ages 20-64 of all races by party by year from 2018 through 2023. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #Think #News
The most interesting thing I find in the graph is the differences in changes from 2020, the first year of COVID which was without immunization, and 2021 the first year with vaccine. I guess I should look at that and provide some numbers by party. Let me know if you would like to that.
October 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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October 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
pecanjim.bsky.social
This is a complex graph that I will explain how to look at it in the text accompanying the graph. Click ALT to see more. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #Think #News
The most likely response upon seeing this is "What the hell?". Each line of the same dots displays that years death rates as a percent of 1999. The middle dark blue diamonds is for the next year so it is very close to the 100% line in the middle of the graph. The most important thing is look at the changes in the general pattern by age. First not that the vertical arrangement of the different lines of dots are the same for the age 0-16 and 65-84. If the United States had the same general changes for all ages like the rest of the economically developed countries that general pattern would have ran very consistently all the way across the graph. In the United States the young are primarily covered by private health insurance but in almost all the states have some back up socialized health care to provide care for our uninsured young. Then as we age into the middle aged, we have health care dominated by capitalist health insurance that has a highly varied prior approval requirement before health care is administered. Then the age group 55 through 64 provides optional Medicare coverage for many of the people in this group that are in serious need of health care that capitalist insurance does not adequately cover. Then for age 65+ Medicare and the private health insurance policy called Medicaid provides treatment. In general the most consistent declining death rates are among the 65+ followed by the age 0-16 with a complex pattern of death rates that increase in different amount and different time periods in that messy middle of the graph. This pattern in death rate changes among our middle aged has several consequences: One is that our CIA says people who live in 48 other countries live longer than we do even though we pay the most for health care. A second is we pay more for health care than any other country. For example Canada pays a little over half as much as we do for health care and their life expectancy is 3.3 years longer. Enough said.
October 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
pecanjim.bsky.social
In trying to see what the effects of religious beliefs are on death rates, I have found indications that religious fundamentalism, especially Southern Baptist, are a major driver of high death rates. The problem is quality of data. See ALT for more. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Demography #Think #News
Looking for measures of state percent Southern Baptist I found measures for the years 1980, 1990, 2020, 2010 and 2020 in: https://www.usreligioncensus.org/index.php/reports_analyses Given that in working with hard to get data I regularly look for data problems and when I found all these ten year apart measures correlated at .99 or higher, I concluded that this was a problem. I kept coming back to the problem and around 4:00 one morning I had time on my hand and decided to search the on line Yellow Pages. I ran a search for "Southern Baptist church" for each state and at the bottom of the first page of listing was the total number for the state search. One problem was that Texas, Florida and Georgia turned up with the number 3,000 which looks like the system's maxim number it will report. Alabama only hit 2,946. I went ahead and recorded the number of each state and after running several years of data I kept finding the Yellow Pages count was more strongly related to the state age 20-64 death rates, the average r for the survey data was 0.60 and the average r for the Yellow Pages number was 0.77. The values of all 112 r's are displayed on the graph. Given how well this graph of age 20-64 showed things, I went ahead and repeated it for ages 65-84. Here I show the same 112 possible correlations for the same independent variables, the decade percent Southern Baptist and the 2025 Yellow Pages listing for Southern Baptist Churches. The relative distance between the two lines of dots are very similar in the degree of running together and relative distance and position between them. But this line of dots shows much more of an increase over time than the middle age graph. Here the r's for the survey data increase from a -0.07 to 0.71 from 1966 to 2023 with an average of 0.38. The same numbers for the Yellow Pages data are an increase from 0.16 to 0.82 with an average of 0.57. This tells me a few things. First, that the Southern Baptist churches have more substantially increased their elder's relying on prayer for health care than their middle aged. Second, the Yellow Pages measure is consistently a better measure, and cheaper, than the survey data. Third, I need to see how these relationships hold up controlling for other variables, especially the only other variable that I have found is stronger than percent Southern Baptist, percent who smoke cigarettes.
October 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
pecanjim.bsky.social
Here I compare the percent changes in single year age deaths rates from 1999 to 2019, the last year before COVID, for non-Hispanic Whites and Blacks as well as Hispanics of all races. Click ALT to see more: 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #Auburn #Think #News
I think this graph shows some of the most unique in the United States changes in death rates. I usually include the data used to create graphs but that is not possible here with as much data I used to produce this graph. The graph starts with a lot of scattered dots showing little racial and ethnic differences among the young. The health care for the young in the United States is primarily covered by capitalist health insurance but almost all the states have socialist health care for the uninsured young. Much of the differences in the height of the dots among the young is due to the random effects showing up in data with small n's. But in general, our young experienced fairly consistent declines. Even the high Hispanic dot at age 6 is for a one percent decline. The worst part of our unique death rates hist in young adulthood. Our middle aged health care is dominated by capitalist health insurance. The United States is unique in the economically developed world in that we allow the capitalist health insurance to delay care as they decide if they will cover particular health care. This practice was put in place after software was developed that allowed the health insurance industry to predict who they would lose money on based on early adult health problems. Those upward slopes in the three lines of dots are produced by some of the people being uninsured and the health insurance industry denying care. The main thing this graph shows is that this increase in death rates in the private health insurance covered population is strongest in the most insured group, non-Hispanic Whites. The last part of the graph shows that Medicare coverage produces the best protection against unnecessary early deaths, We simply wait for people to get too old for civilized health care to have a life expectancy among the longest. I will end repeating my most repeated line. Canada has a life expectancy that is 3.3 years longer than we in the United States does.
October 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
pecanjim.bsky.social
Here is a detailed single year of age by political party graph that I have put together in an attempt to make differences in death rates understandable. Click alt to see more: 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #Think #News
This graph compares the single year age death rates in the Mixed Party and Republican voting states with same statistic in Democratic voting states. The last dot, for age group 85+ is essentially equal because nobody out lives the + sign. The graph starts with the very young in Mixed Party states a little above 130. That means those death rates are a little over 30% higher than the same age death rates in Democratic voting states. Both lines become more level for almost twenty years before moving down together until about age 40. From there the Republican voting states average about 108%, 8% higher says the same thing, of Democratic voting states while the mixed party states average close to 105%. Now the standard measure of death rates is life expectancy, the age by which half the people die. I find life expectancy a hard to understand measure communicating to anyone without a degree in demography when describing death rates. Here are the 2023 life expediencies for the three groups: Democratic voting states is 77.9 and the other two are the same at 76.5. That simply does not tell me much about the differences. The fact that the two lines of dots showing different death rates in mixed party and Republican voting states have the. same life expectancy shows that the don't measure everything. Here are the state abbreviations for the three groups: Dem Mix Rep CA AZ AL CO GA AK CT IA AR DE MI FL DC MN ID HI NH IN IL NC KS ME OH KY MD PA LA MA TX MS NV WI MO NJ MI MT NM NE NY ND OR OK RI SC VT SD TN UT WV WY
October 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
pecanjim.bsky.social
This graph presents the total deaths rates of states from 1999 through 2023 for states grouped by the party they voted for. See text for more information: 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #News #Think
This graph shows that Republican voting states consistently has had higher death rates than mixed party states which have consistently had higher death rates than the Democratic voting States from 1999 through 2023. This pattern is so stable that the only noticeable difference is for the first and second years of the COVID epidemic. The Democratic voting states being higher is primarily due to COVID hitting the east and west coast states, among which Democrats make up a very high percent, where COVID hit first. The pattern reverses the second year because when COVID vaccine became. available Democrats were much more likely to get vaccinated during the first year. The slower to learn and less scientific findings accepting non-Democrats were less likely to accept vaccinations and as a result they experienced an increase in death rates in 2021 while the Democratic voting states experienced a decline. Out of the little more than 200 graphs I have posed here, I think this one is the simplest and easiest to read. What I don't have is data to show is how much better the Democratic voters in the Republican voting states did than their mixed party and Republican voting neighbors.
October 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
pecanjim.bsky.social
It looks like access to the mortality data I have used to post here is being changed by the Trump administration. They make claims that they are fixing data problems, the problem is anything that will show what they are doing is "bad" by Trump's definition. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #Think #News
October 7, 2025 at 2:30 AM
pecanjim.bsky.social
Here I show changes in death rates from 1999 through 2020 for the United States population divided into age groups determined by how their health care is paid for, 0, 1-19, 20-64 and 65-84. Age 85+ is excluded because nobody lives through it. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population
I present graphs using this color coded pattern for all four age groups displayed here. The groups are based on how health care is provide, especially paid for. Age 0 is special and highly variable by state in ways that are not consistently related to how other ages are cared for. During this time, the United States has reduced death rates so much that we actually have lower death rates than Canada for this age group. The thing to remember is this shows us how death rates changed from 1999 through 2020. That does have an effect on actual level but the states that entered this period with higher death rates found it easier to bring the death rates down than the states that entered with lower death rates, this is especially the case for Utah and Maine. Now to the next age group. Age group 1-19, is also unique because the primary way for paying for health care, capitalist health insurance, is backed up by highly variable state funded care for the young that are not covered by by the primary method. This age group has the lowest death rates and because of that, they have minimal effects on measures like life expectancy that count deaths by all ages to be calculated. In general, these younger people, like the under age one group have a positive effect on state life expediencies during these two decades. Next, the group most exclusive provided health care through the most capitalist part of our health care system, ages 20-64. This is our age group that is dominated by the correlations that show increasing death rates, positive values of r. New York is the only state with a negative correlation and it is only a -0.04 soon followed by California and Nevada with r's below 0.15. In general this graph displays the death rate changes for the only part of the earth's population with industrialize economies that generally experienced increasing death rates during this time period. In general I feel we will not stop this evil increase in our death rates until we follow the rest of the economically developed part of the world and get rid of capitalist funded health care. Now the last graph, for ages 65-84. Sorry, I don't know why I made this one so wide, but it still shows that it is the most solidly almost white graph. Again, this does not mean they are all at the same level, it just means that they all have the most consistently declining death rates. What I find most amazing is that this has been going on for a quarter of a century if we exclude the recent COVID deaths and our most extreme idiocy is our ignoring our middle age increasing death rates while our elderly have declining death rates! The main thing this shows us is that the major capitalist funded health care in the economically developed part of our earth's population that has consistently shown increasing death rates is this capitalist funded part, our middle aged. And things are looking like they will be adding our elderly to the middle aged system of denying health care to make the rich richer. If Trump succeeds in ending democracy in the United States and establishing a totally rich dominated political system, we will experience a long period of increasing death rates for the sole purpose of making the richest people in the world richer.
October 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM