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>Europe keeps regulating itself to death and america isn’t.

Given that the life expectancy in the US is falling which is unprecedented in an industrialised society, and on average below some second world countries that post has an involuntary morbid spin.



Unprecedented might be too strong a term. It isn't too difficult to find ups and downs of life expectancy in Western European countries.


That is correct, such decreases have been seen before.

e.g: "If we're not careful, we could end up with declining life expectancy for three years in a row, which we haven't seen since the Spanish flu, 100 years ago."

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/21/health/us-life-expectancy...


Leading cause of death for under 45 in the US is traffic fatalities.


How about child mortality?




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