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it should be considered journalistic malpractice to so briefly allude to the fact that this trend existed before the pandemic, mainly due to deaths of despair in young people https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1362366002722443265
there will be no reckoning for those who allowed this misery to persist for a full year because we fail to reckon with the murderous way that this country has always treated those in need
now i have to watch a thousand biden voters insist that theyâve conquered a *downward trend in life expectancy* as if the gnawing, increasingly astute feeling that you could die tomorrow and no one would care goes fully unresolved
if more people viewed a drop in life expectancy as a drop-off in the overall quality and literal expectation of life instead of an About Time-style reduction of their own personal age of departure, we might not have to endure these crushing realities
