Thursday, January 5, 2023

Meanwhile, U.S. life expectancy declines below China (!)

The COVID pandemic explains some of this, but so does austerity (as practiced by the UK excerpt: "austerity since 2010 had led to a third of a million excess deaths, twice as many as from the pandemic.")

Short form (for the UK):

As (Democrat) Boss Tweed used to say "I don't care who people vote for as long as I can pick the candidates"... Here's how that plays out in UK (Sunak is the Tory, Starmer is the Labor leader):



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