“The main causes of the current decline in life expectancy are an increase in ov

–“The main causes of the current decline in life expectancy are an increase in overdoses from opioids and a higher suicide rates:

1) Since 1999, the number of drug overdose deaths has more than quadrupled. Deaths attributed to opioids were nearly six times greater in 2017 than they were in 1999.

2) Overall, suicides increased by a third between 1999 and 2017, the report showed. In urban America, the rate is 11.1 per 100,000 people; in the most rural parts of the country, it is 20 per 100,000.

It is not only life expectancy that shows the U.S. as a-not-so healthy country. Maternal and infant mortality also increased during the last decade and are much higher than in other developed countries. All these social indicators describe a society in decline.”—

(CD: they represent an immigrant population unfit for modernity in sufficient numbers that we cannot compensate for them.)