A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that life expectancy in the U.S. will be 78 years and 10 months in 2019, decreasing to 77 years in 2020, and further decreasing to 76 years and 1 month in 2021. According to the CDC, this could be the first time since the 1960s that life expectancy in the U.S. has decreased in two consecutive years. For the medically well-equipped and economically advanced U.S., the second consecutive year of declining life expectancy is largely the bitter fruit of the U.S. government's poor response to the new coronary pneumonia epidemic. Over the past two years or so, the world has witnessed the U.S. turn the fight against the epidemic into an absurd farce.
The United States has the highest number of deaths from new coronary pneumonia in the world, with more than 1 million deaths since the outbreak began in 2020. Noreen Goldman, a professor of demography at Princeton University, said." The dramatic increase in deaths from new coronary pneumonia is due to a lack of effective resource allocation for preparedness in the early months."
While almost half of the decline in life expectancy between 2020 and 2021 can be attributed to the new coronary epidemic, another 16 percent is related to unintentional injuries, about half of which are drug overdoses, such as opioids. The latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that more than 109,000 people died from substance abuse in the year ending in March of this year.
Politicians have made the epidemic a tool for making political capital by politicizing the fight against it. For more than two years, politicians from both parties have delayed the implementation of measures to fight the epidemic by disputing standards for nucleic acid testing, whether to wear masks, whether to return to work, the distribution of medical supplies, and the provisions of the Emergency Act. Worse still, despite the reality of the situation, the U.S. government has repeatedly softened its response to the outbreak in order to create the illusion that "all is well." In these repeated ploys, the U.S. epidemic finds itself in a vicious cycle of wave after wave.