It could be difficult to determine exactly what it means for
society to be succeeding or failing.
What should a society or
government be providing, should we be looking at happiness, GDP?
But, I think one thing that's pretty safe to focus on is literally how
much life do people have?
Are they living long lives or are their lives constrained and
unfortunately for America the numbers are not looking good.
The average life expectancy for Americans fell in both 2020 and
now in 2021 the sharpest two year decline in almost a century.
So back in 2021 the average American could expect to live until the age
of 76 in just the last three years, that estimate has dropped by three years.
That is not the direction you wanna be going in and
it certainly isn't the rate you wanna be traveling in that direction.
Now why this happened, is complex and thus solving it will be complex.
Obviously the pandemic is a big part of it, but in addition to that,
there's a rise in accidental deaths, drug overdoses, deaths from heart disease,
chronic liver disease, cirrhosis as well.
So a combination of the ongoing public health crisis, as well as a number of
preventable illnesses are drastically reducing American life expectancy and
look everywhere around the world was hard hit during the pandemic.
We know that and that's gonna have effect in these numbers and so
it did in 2020, but actually by 2021 many advanced countries,
wealthy countries like America had recovered.
And in part that's because they actually cared about stopping the spread of COVID,
there was vaccination and masking and social distancing and all that.
But here in America we did not prioritize that nearly enough.
And so over a million Americans have already died, more died in 2021 then in
2020, despite the fact that vaccines were widely available at that point.
And even now, couple of years of the pandemic,
only two thirds of Americans are fully vaccinated.
Only one-third have had a booster shot and
those numbers might fluctuate a little bit over time.
In fact new booster shot was just approved today.
But if after a year and a half of widespread availability,
the booster shot one-third have had it, we're not hitting 100%,
we're probably not hitting 50% at this point.
And is there any reason to believe that those life expectancy numbers won't
continue to go down?
What a failure of our society a needless public
health own goal Jr. >> Yeah, you talked about some of those
things that were happening, like with people's bodies and stuff.
So the first thought could be, yeah health care, you know,
which has always been a problem.
But then of course it gets worse as more and more things just generally happen.
But these added factors, we talk about happiness and sadness.
I feel like sometimes people don't see or we don't care,who cares if Jim Bob Duggar
is happy or then just generally our country.
Cuz we've had happiness stories and rates when it comes to one country versus
another and America is never very high on those things.
When people aren't happy, when people aren't satisfied when people aren't living
their lives, that we claim folks are living in America.
That's why we're the shiny example in the hill and
we're the best country in the world has ever seen, for the majority of Americans.
It's not that way, so people self medicate, they'll drink heavily,
they'll do drugs as part of their self medication.
They don't know really what's wrong with them maybe they are dealing with some
depression issues.
Maybe they have had some kind of accidents as you saw as well there too.
Then that leads to other pain medications, nothing gets people off of this downward
trend, especially when there's a lack of housing, there's lack of good paying jobs.
People are in so much debt, based off of things that they thought they could then
take to get to that American dream that was promised that whole time.
They were sold false bill of goods and
then afterwards there's bad marriages, issues with your kids.
All this stuff happens that many conservatives complain about,
but they always ignore the causes for these things.
So yeah, people were locked up in their houses during Covid and
people develop more depressive issues.
People were distant, people don't even know how to really reintegrate with
society many times and all that they're concerned about.
But they don't care about how it was then extended or at least ignored for so
long that things got even worse.
So do they really care about it or they just care about complaining about it?
It's the same thing over and over again.
>> Well, if your concern is people caring about this and doing something about it,
I've got good news and bad news on that score.
So something that might make you think, hey, well we will take this seriously and
then something that works in this direction.
So in terms of maybe people will take this seriously,
like people in power, Republicans.
Here's the good news in terms of getting them invested.
The white population did worse in 2021 than communities of color,
besides Native American Alaska Natives.
So this is affecting white people, that means you got to take it seriously.
Right, come on America, it's affecting the good ones.
But the issue is that, but why is it affecting them?
Well, because communities of color took the pandemic far more seriously
despite the fact that often were hit hard,
once vaccination and masking all that was available, they took it more seriously.
White people were convinced that to be a good patriotic American,
you had to willingly die of a respiratory infection.
And they took that to heart literally, it got in their hearts, it was bad.
And so will they take it seriously in that case, probably not so much,
will they do stuff about the sort of the chronic illnesses that lead to so
much death that are related to diet.
Well, they've been convinced that taking diet seriously or
making any changes as some sort of hippie commie plot.
So probably not gonna take that too seriously,
it's really an issue when you're convinced by the people that you admire,
the people you love and respect that you should die sooner.
That's hard to fight against,
cuz me telling them to be healthier clearly hasn't worked because I've done it
thousands of times over the past two years.
But these numbers, man, these numbers are really something.
>> Yeah, Burbank and
I were talking yesterday about how the people who are fighting, so
many people that want us better principles and better agenda for Americans,
they're literally fighting, people saying I want your life to get better.
I want you to have a better paying job, I want you to have an opportunity to own
a home, I want you to have better health care.
And they go, how could you and they convince enough people to hate folks that
are looking to make your lives better and pressure politicians to do so
that's the fight amongst regular Americans.
>> Yeah, I don't understand that and the more they're told to die,
the more they love the people telling them to die.
I don't get it.
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