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    Sid and FinancyHamilton Nolan
    5/05/16 5:24pm

    However, among children, mortality has been falling more quickly in poorer areas with the result that inequality in mortality has fallen substantially over time. This is an important result given the growing literature showing that good health in childhood predicts better health in adulthood.

    I have to agree with science on this one: Not dying as a child has a positive correlation with healthy adulthood.

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      Sonic Reducer 151Sid and Financy
      5/05/16 5:28pm

      Those studies are flawed.

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      TopherSid and Financy
      5/05/16 5:32pm

      As a matter of fact, 100% of adults living today are healthier than those that died as children.

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    cuntybawsHamilton Nolan
    5/05/16 5:19pm

    “Hey, great, more people!” - Earth

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      Kenhe Logincuntybaws
      5/05/16 5:21pm
      GIF
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      Stan Kroenke's Hairpiececuntybaws
      5/05/16 5:26pm

      Yeah, but baby people! I mean, you can fit, like, 7 baby people into the space of one adult person.

      And we keep the baby people contained! When was the last time you saw a baby person by themselves just standing on the sidewalk, chilling in the middle of moving pedestrian traffic and fucking up the flow?

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    MizJenkinsHamilton Nolan
    5/05/16 5:29pm

    When it comes to discussions of mortality rates, it seems like all we hear these days is “middle-aged white Americans are dying more.” Okay, fine—but here’s the good news.

    That wasn’t the good news?

    GIF
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      Great-GoogaglymoogaglyMizJenkins
      5/05/16 5:42pm

      The terrifying thing about those high mortality rates is they’re correlated to the rise of populist demagogues. Vast swaths of uneducated and unemployed people with few prospects and an impending death aren’t likely to have no impact whatsoever. And those are the exact groups with the highest mortality rates.

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      opiumsmabytchMizJenkins
      5/06/16 9:19am

      *snort

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    Blood Cubic ZirconiaHamilton Nolan
    5/05/16 5:29pm

    “Wow, middle-aged whites are dying faster now”

    Awww man, I wanted a long, drawn-out death... showered with morphine and sympathy. Not a quick, never-knew-what-hit-me, death :(

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      EasttoMidwestBlood Cubic Zirconia
      5/05/16 6:01pm

      Yeah, they are having long drawn out deaths from self-administered opiates and alcohol. (Seriously.)

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    HangnailsHamilton Nolan
    5/05/16 5:20pm

    The next generation is going to be all Zika pinhead babies so don’t get too excited.

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      Chuck SchwaHangnails
      5/05/16 6:09pm

      Just think of all the natural resources being saved by making smaller hats!

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    Flying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)Hamilton Nolan
    5/05/16 5:19pm

    The demographic landscape of this country in 20-30 years when the majority of Boomers are gone will be unlike anything America has ever seen. I am not a Boomer, I’m Gen X, so I hope I’ll live to see it.

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      ReburnsABurningReturnsHamilton Nolan
      5/05/16 5:37pm

      We also show that there have been stunning declines in mortality rates for African Americans between 1990 and 2010, especially for black men.

      I tried to find in the paper a good explanation for why this was thought to be the case and found nothing, but maybe I missed it. The most obvious though was the overall decrease in violent crimes, but the paper specifically says that due to the low overall rate of crime during that time period in general, they don’t think that is the cause.

      A few other things are tossed out as ideas in the paper, such as declines in HIV/AIDs mortality, declines in smoking, where but they don’t seem to actually explore them in much depth so it’s hard to understand if/why those would have had an outsized impact on black men.

      Interesting stuff, nonetheless.

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        ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeHamilton Nolan
        5/05/16 5:32pm

        Trump is going to arm wrestle Death and make him wish he hadn’t messed with White Murica.

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          useless ruckusHamilton Nolan
          5/05/16 7:32pm

          Ah, but what kind of world will those babies live in? At least half of them are going to wish they’d died at birth.

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            dwaynespeaksjiveHamilton Nolan
            5/05/16 5:21pm

            This is why we need an abortion clinic in every high school.

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