Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Feb 17^th, 2020 at 10:05am:


i'll await you apology.

from NPR ( a leftie american site equivalent to our ABC). jan 2020

For the first time since 2014, death rates in the U.S. declined and life expectancy showed a modest uptick, according to new data released in two reports Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Life expectancy at birth in 2018 was 78.7 years, 0.1 year longer than the previous year.

It may seem like a small increase, but for a population of around 350 million, the shift represents improvements in the lives of many people, says the CDC's Bob Anderson, the chief of the Mortality Statistics Branch at the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, who oversaw the new reports.

"That's a lot of people who ... avoided premature death," he says.

The average lifespan of an American had risen for decades, reaching 78.9 years in 2014. But it took a dip in 2015, held steady in 2016 and dipped again in 2017, largely driven by the steep growth in drug overdose and suicide deaths.

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The recent improvement was driven by decreases in death rates from six of the 10 leading causes of death, including a 2.2% decrease in cancer deaths (part of an ongoing downward trend since the 1990s) and a 2.8% fall in deaths from unintentional injuries, which include drug overdoses.

The new numbers show that in 2018, there were 4.1% fewer drug overdose deaths than in 2017, mostly in deaths involving natural and semi-synthetic opioids. That "includes drugs like oxycodone, which are commonly available by prescription," says Anderson. "We [also] saw declines in deaths involving methadone and even ... heroin."

This is good news, says Dr. Daniel Ciccarone, a professor of medicine and an addiction researcher at the University of California, San Francisco. "It's really the first positive change that we've seen in a 20-year-long trend of drug overdose deaths."

As the new report shows, drug overdose deaths had risen every year since 1999, until 2018.




seems that when trump  helps people they feel strong and stop overdosing.
when lefties try to help, they feel weak and infantalised and hopeless

None of those are suicide stats.

aquascoot wrote on Feb 17^th, 2020 at 1:01pm:




I can agree with that, Id debate that the drop is entirely due to Trump.  Whilst Trump has done some things, Obama did some things, and there have also been plenty of state based efforts


But then again, I didn't ask about the opioid epidemic, I asked about those suicide stats

aquascoot wrote on Feb 17^th, 2020 at 1:11pm:




No, can you just answer my question about the suicide stats

Yes, you only have to consider Pessary, Mimo, Mothball, Arsie, Damaged DNA, Whiteshyte..........all leftwing plonkers.....

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Feb 17^th, 2020 at 1:13pm:


It appears that he can't.

John Smith wrote on Feb 18^th, 2020 at 5:11pm:



i think if some one was living a life that was a trainwreck and he saw someone who was crushing it....he couldnt comprehend the other.

i often feel like a cheerful dude , buzzing off my own awesomeness, walking down the street and then the lefties on here, seem like some homeless guy who comes up "give me some change, i need some change".

they are in such scarcity
they are living lives of "pure coping".
they think everyone is "just trying to cope with this rough world"

they dont understand the paradigm shift that would get them out of pain and make them strong  powerful resilient individuals who took extreme ownership of every problem and loved their problems.

problems (to the chode) make him cry out for help (help me scomo)
problems to the noble superior man make him expand into something bigger and stronger and blast upwards to the next paradigm

aquascoot wrote on Feb 18^th, 2020 at 5:23pm:



most people suffering from mental illness are the last to know... it's only when those around them tell them something is wrong that they start to realise.

As my good deed for the day, I'm telling you .......... seek help.