A new divide in American death

[Since Obama]

Now the mdia faggots are piling on white women as well. Blaming
them for poor life choices when it is the Democratic party who
first gave their jobs to foreign countries, then began
encouraging immigration from other countries to "fill jobs" in
the USA. Every Democrat should be strung up in the nearest tree.

White women have been dying prematurely at higher rates since
the turn of this century, passing away in their 30s, 40s and 50s
in a slow-motion crisis driven by decaying health in small-town
America, according to an analysis of national health and
mortality statistics by The Washington Post.

Among African Americans, Hispanics and even the oldest white
Americans, death rates have continued to fall. But for white
women in what should be the prime of their lives, death rates
have spiked upward. In one of the hardest-hit groups - rural
white women in their late 40s - the death rate has risen by 30
percent.

The Post's analysis, which builds on academic research published
last year, shows a clear divide in the health of urban and rural
Americans, with the gap widening most dramatically among whites.
The statistics reveal two Americas diverging, neither as healthy
as it should be but one much sicker than the other.

In modern times, rising death rates are extremely rare and
typically involve countries in upheaval, such as Russia
immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In affluent
countries, people generally enjoy increasingly long lives,
thanks to better cancer treatments; drugs that lower cholesterol
and the risk of heart attacks; fewer fatal car accidents; and
less violent crime.

But progress for middle-aged white Americans is lagging in many
places - and has stopped entirely in smaller cities and towns
and the vast open reaches of the country. The things that reduce
the risk of death are now being overwhelmed by things that
elevate it, including opioid abuse, heavy drinking, smoking and
other self-destructive behaviors.

White men are also dying in midlife at unexpectedly high rates.
But the most extreme changes in mortality have occurred among
white women, who are far more likely than their grandmothers to
be smokers, suffer from obesity or drink themselves to death.

White women still outlive white men and African Americans of
both sexes. But for the generations of white women who have come
of age since the 1960s, that health advantage appears to be
evaporating.

This reversal may be fueling anger among white voters: The Post
last month found a correlation between places with high white
death rates and support for GOP presidential candidate Donald
Trump.

Public health experts say the rising white death rate reflects a
broader health crisis, one that has made the United States the
least healthy affluent nation in the world over the past 20
years. The reason these early deaths are so conspicuous among
white women, these experts say, is because in the past the
members of this comparatively privileged group have been
unlikely to die prematurely.

Laudy Aron, a researcher with the Urban Institute, said rising
white death rates show that the United States' slide in overall
health is not being driven simply by poor health in historically
impoverished communities.

"You can't explain it away as, 'It's those people over there who
are pulling us down,' " Aron said. "We're all going down."

For this article, The Post examined death records from the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, breaking the
information down geographically, county by county, by level of
urbanization and by cause of death.

Big cities and their suburbs - metropolitan areas of more than 1
million people - looked strikingly different from the rest of
the country. The Post divided these populations into urban and
rural categories, with the rural population encompassing smaller
cities as well as small towns and the most remote places.

The statistics show decaying health for all white women since
2000. The trend was most dramatic for women in the more rural
areas. There, for every 100,000 women in their late 40s, 228
died at the turn of this century. Today, 296 are dying. And in
rural areas, the uptick in mortality was noticeable even
earlier, as far back as 1990. Since then, death rates for rural
white women in midlife have risen by nearly 50 percent.

In the hardest-hit places - 21 counties arrayed across the South
and Midwest - the death rate has doubled, or worse, since the
turn of the century for white women in midlife.

In Victoria County, Texas, a rural area near the Gulf Coast,
deaths among women 45 to 54 have climbed by 169 percent in that
time period, the sharpest increase in that age group of any U.S.
county. The death rate climbed from 216 per 100,000 people to
583.

Lisa Campbell, medical director for the Victoria County health
department, said a third of adults in the county are obese,
roughly in line with the national average. Also, 1 in 5 smokes -
well above the national average - and people can still light up
in restaurants and other public places.

Campbell said she has been struck by how many white women she
knows who have some kind of cancer.

"It's kind of weird, actually," she said.

White women remain an advantaged demographic, just less so, year
by year. Four decades ago, the average white American woman
lived eight years longer than the average white American man.
Today, that health advantage has narrowed to just five years.

What we're seeing is "the shrinking protective effect of gender
in life expectancy," said former U.S. assistant surgeon general
Susan Blumenthal, a women's-health expert.

Multiple factors are converging to produce this corrosion of
American health. Foremost is an epidemic of opioid and heroin
overdoses that has been particularly devastating in working-
class and rural communities.

Another killer is related to heavy drinking. Deaths of rural
white women in their early 50s from cirrhosis of the liver have
doubled since the end of the 20th century, The Post found.

Suicides are also on the rise. The suicide rate is climbing for
white women of all ages and has more than doubled for rural
white women ages 50 to 54.

Other trends may be contributing to the die-off, including
obesity. Americans are the heaviest people in the world outside
of a few Pacific Island nations; more than a third of adults in
the United States are considered obese. The average American
woman today weighs as much as an American man did in the early
1960s.

Obesity causes its own kind of liver disease and can be lethal
in combination with other conditions, such as diabetes, heart
attacks and strokes.

Every death is unique, with its own narrative, often one that is
complicated and, in the deepest sense, personal. There are many
paths to that final destination. Medical experts refer to
"morbidity," a catchall term for the rate of serious illnesses.

"I try to emphasize: It's not just mortality - it's also
morbidity," said Princeton University economist Anne Case, lead
author of the much-publicized study that late last year drew
national attention to rising mortality among middle-aged whites,
particularly among those with a high school education or
less."There are millions of people underneath these graphs who
are in pain."

Researchers circled the dying-whites phenomenon for several
years before clearly recognizing what they were seeing. In 2014,
the increase in the death rate of relatively young white women
was right there in the CDC's massive annual report on American
health, but it drew no comment in the introductory highlights.
Readers had to scrutinize Table 23 on Page 109 to spot the trend.

Other reports were more explicit. A 2013 study at the University
of Wisconsin looked at the geography of death and discovered
that mortality for women of all races had risen in 43 percent of
U.S. counties between 1992 and 2006. Men's mortality had risen
in only 3 percent of counties.

Also in 2013, a sweeping study, "Shorter Lives, Poorer Health,"
from the National Research Council and the National Academies'
Institute of Medicine showed a broad "health disadvantage" among
Americans, compared with people in other affluent countries.

Aron, the Urban Institute researcher who co-authored the study,
wrote in January 2014 that "increases in mortality are
especially pronounced among white women of reproductive age, not
a group we generally think of as being disadvantaged." Last
year, she and two co-authors published a separate article
highlighting the perplexing number of white women who are dying
prematurely.

Then, in November, Case and her husband, Angus Deaton, another
Princeton economics professor, published their paper in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Deaton had
recently won the Nobel Prize in economics, an honor that added
media gloss to the dying-whites study. Suddenly, it was a
national story.

Other researchers weighed in, debating aspects of the Case-
Deaton statistical analysis. For example, their study played
down differences in gender; Case and Deaton contend that the
noticeably higher death rates for women were largely driven by
smoking patterns.

Others have questioned the sudden focus on whites, pointing out
that African Americans continue to have shorter life spans and
face severe health challenges exacerbated by racial segregation
and discrimination. Why, they ask, give so much attention to a
group that remains statistically advantaged?

"The truth is that white death rates are still much, much lower
than they are for African Americans," said Bridget Catlin,
senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin. "My concern is
that people will think, 'Oh, it's whites that need to be
helped.' "

Catlin is co-director of a program, sponsored by the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation, that has found a growing divide between
urban and rural health consistent with The Post's findings - and
implicitly consistent with Case and Deaton's, since whites are a
large majority in most rural areas.

Case said that the whites who are dying are not America's elites.

"They may be privileged by the color of their skin," she said,
"but that is the only way in their lives they've ever been
privileged."

In at least 30 counties in the South, black women in midlife now
have a lower mortality rate than middle-aged white women, The
Post found. That's up from a single such county in 1999.

Among them is Newton County, Ga., southeast of Atlanta, where
the death rate for black women ages 35 to 54 dropped from 472
per 100,000 to 234. The rate for white women went the other way,
from 255 to 472.

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Theories abound about what has sparked the die-off. Researchers
have noted that a powerful opioid, oxycodone, won regulatory
approval and its use became widespread around the time white
death rates began to rise.

But overdoses account for only a portion of the extra deaths;
something else is going on.

"The stressors have increased," said Janine Clayton, director of
the Office of Research on Women's Health at the National
Institutes of Health. "If it's affecting women who previously
had better health, how might it even more deleteriously affect
women who previously had borderline health?"

Researchers point out that this generation of white women has
experienced a revolutionary change in gender roles over the past
half-century, surging into the workforce while typically
retaining traditional duties as domestic caregivers - a dual
role to which many women of color have long been accustomed.
White women often find themselves harried in ways their
grandmothers could never have imagined.

"I think we are undergoing a change that's comparable to the
Industrial Revolution," Aron said. "Those of us who are lucky
enough to have jobs are sort of clinging to them for dear life."

Amid these social changes, American women collectively became
more likely to engage in risky behaviors, health experts say.
There is a declining difference, for example, between men and
women in the consumption of alcohol, said George Koob, director
of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

Men are still more likely to abuse alcohol, Koob said, but women
tend to experience a "telescoping" of the negative outcomes and
more quickly develop alcohol-related diseases. Koob noted that
alcohol abuse can be particularly deadly in combination with
obesity, which is rampant in rural America.

"I think that's what you're picking up, is insults to the
liver," Koob said of The Post's findings.

Women in middle age also are more likely to smoke or to have
smoked at some point in their lives, and smoking-related
diseases are a huge factor in women's mortality. When men began
quitting cigarettes in large numbers in the 1960s and 1970s, the
smoking gap between men and women nearly vanished.

Lung cancer now kills far more women than breast cancer.

Different racial and ethnic groups have distinct health profiles
and particular challenges. Black women with breast cancer are
more likely to die from it, for example, even though white women
have higher rates of the disease. Blacks also have much higher
rates than whites of heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and
asthma and are less likely to have health insurance.

Whites stand out for their high rate of opioid use. Americans
represent 5 percent of the world's population but consume at
least 80 percent of its prescription opioids. And whites, for
complex sociological and economic reasons, are far more likely
than blacks or Hispanics to be prescribed opioids.

People hooked on opioids often turn to street heroin, which
gives the same effect and is cheaper. A medical study last year
reported that 90 percent of the people who tried heroin for the
first time in the past decade were white. Meanwhile, overdoses
from painkillers, heroin and other opiates have been rising
faster among women.

The CDC recently responded to the opioid epidemic with new
guidelines for how and when doctors should prescribe these
powerful drugs. The CDC did not issue gender-specific
recommendations for men and women except for ones related to
pregnancy; Blumenthal, the women's-health specialist, said sex
differences are often overlooked in research reporting, as well
as in clinical treatment.

In Walker County, Ala., less than an hour northwest of
Birmingham, the population of 65,000 is 91 percent white, and
opiate addiction is rampant. The coal mines have been shutting
down for decades. Nearly 1 in 5 working-age people are listed as
disabled. Since 1999, the death rate for white women 35 to 44
has jumped 170 percent, The Post found.

The county's sheriff says that 4 out of 5 arrests are for drug-
related crimes.

"When we see somebody dead under 50, we automatically think
drugs," said Walker County Circuit Clerk Susan Odom, whose
sister died of a drug overdose. "Died at home? Drugs."

Some regions are hit especially hard, such as the belt of
poverty and pain that runs across the northern tier of the
South, incorporating much of West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee
and Arkansas. But significant increases in white mortality also
showed up in the small-town and rural Midwest - such as Johnson
County, Iowa, home of the University of Iowa - and in parts of
the American West, such as Nye County, Nev., and Siskiyou
County, Calif.

No region is completely free of the trend. The big exceptions
are the major cities, such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago,
Washington and Houston. There, the death rate for whites has
continued to fall, but less dramatically than for blacks and
Hispanics.

Men feel these forces, too. The Post found a sharp rise in
mortality among men 25 to 35 - a prime age for overdoses. An
older generation has also stumbled: The Post's analysis showed
that, since 2008, when the nation descended into the Great
Recession, the death rate for white men 55 to 64 has marched
upward.

In general, men are significantly more likely to die prematurely
than women. And because the male death rate is relatively high
to begin with, a small spike, or even a failure to drop as
expected, can mean of lot of funerals.

Compared with a scenario in which mortality rates for whites
continued to fall steadily after 1998, roughly 650,000 people
have died prematurely since 1999 - around 450,000 men and nearly
200,000 women.

That number nearly equals the death toll of the American Civil
War.

The Norman Rockwell vision of America was always heavily
idealized, but the country has changed in fundamental ways over
the past half-century. We are now an urban society. Left behind
are small towns and small cities where the kids leave after high
school graduation, the churches struggle to stay open and the
biggest business in town is often the local hospital.

In Bakersfield, Calif., a small city in heavily agricultural
Kern County, Samantha Burton, 42, was addicted to painkillers
for a decade but has been clean for more than two years. She
said her problem started with a prescription for Percocet after
she got a bad case of food poisoning.

"This can be a very stifling place. It's culturally barren," she
said of Bakersfield. "There is no place where children can go
and see what it's like to be somewhere else, to be someone else.
At first, the drugs are an escape from your problems, from this
place, and then you're trapped."

One theory about what is causing rising mortality among whites
is the "dashed expectations" hypothesis. According to Johns
Hopkins University sociologist Andrew Cherlin, whites today are
more pessimistic than their forebears about their opportunities
to advance in life. They are also more pessimistic than their
black and Hispanic contemporaries.

"The idea that today's generations will do better than their
parents' generation is part of the American Dream. It has always
been true until now," Cherlin said. "It may still be true for
college-educated Americans, but not for the high-school-educated
people we used to call the working class."

Cherlin said whites benefited from discriminatory hiring when
the working class was built over much of the past century. Union
jobs tended to go to whites, he said, and labor contracts
protected them until the unions lost power and jobs went
overseas.

"Whites had a privileged place in the blue-collar economy," he
said. And as the middle of the labor market disappeared, so did
that historic white privilege.

Predominantly white, working-class areas with high death rates
have proved to be fertile ground for Trump. Political observers
speculate that the voter anger driving his campaign emerges from
the many distresses felt in these economically challenged - and
increasingly morbid - places.

The wave of lethal agents rolling across the country is broad in
its effects, but it appears to be cresting in places that are
particularly vulnerable - such as a town where the trains no
longer stop, or a small city that saw its biggest manufacturer
move overseas, or in a household broken by divorce or substance
abuse or tragedy.

Or in the mind and body of someone who is doing poorly, and just
barely hanging on.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-death-in-
america-20160410-story.html
 

[Mr. B1ack]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 11:00:53 +0200 (CEST), "Since Obama"
<white-g...@disney.com> wrote:

>Among African Americans, Hispanics and even the oldest white
>Americans, death rates have continued to fall. But for white
>women in what should be the prime of their lives, death rates
>have spiked upward. In one of the hardest-hit groups - rural
>white women in their late 40s - the death rate has risen by 30
>percent.

Hmm ... lifestyles when they were in their teens
and 20s maybe - too much coke and 'X' and meth ???

Forgot to teach their daughters about birth control
pills maybe - now babysitting teen-moms and their
offspring too ? Stressful.

Forgot to STOP with the coke & 'X' & meth maybe ?

Excess immigration sure hasn't helped the money
situation, but outright deaths, "operator error" comes
to mind.

The other day I was looking at the women involved
with Percy Shelly and lord Byron ... including Mary
Shelly, sister and social circle & descendents.
Almost all of those women died young, some quite
young. Only a couple cases seemed to be "childbirth"-
related. The death rate, even for middle/upper-class
women, was horrific in the 1800s. Surprised they
even had a word for "grandma" because there were
so few of them around.

Now, oddly perhaps, the "peasant" women of the
time did much better. Stuff to do, physical tasks,
farm-fresh food, not much time for partying .... it
did them good. But for the upwards classes
'success' was fatal for the women.

[needtruth]

Looks like we won this one too. The stupid moron women who married the
right wing scum were a little harder to induce into the life style of
their moronic husbands but it looks like we won this one also.

Thanks for the update. I was hoping that someone would figure it out
one of these days and let us know if we were successful but now we know
that WE DID IT!!! Their all killing themselves off, just like we
planned. Thanks for the update. I'll pass it on to the rest of the
lefties and let them know that the conspiracy worked. Oh how happy
they'll be!!!

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