There’s Something Very Dark Happening to Millennials and Gen Z Adults
slate.com
America is not a good place to be an early adult.
  • FishLake@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    571·
    3 days ago

    Articles like this are very frustrating to me. They keep talking about the pandemic in the past tense, as if all the deleterious effects of COVID-19 must have disappeared by now. The reality is that the pandemic never went away. This disease, that causes damage to basically all your biology systems, has been running unmitigated through our population since 2022. And yet we’re to credulously wonder why there is an increase in deaths for millennials and Gen Z? This is a fucking Tim Robinson hotdog meme of an article.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
      38·
      3 days ago

      To be fair, pretty much all western nations let covid rip through the population, yet mortality in the US is higher than elsewhere. So, it can’t be just covid alone.

      • FishLake@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        34·
        3 days ago

        Strange that there’s excess death during an ongoing pandemic in the only industrialized nation that doesn’t have socialized health care, right? COVID-19 has exacerbated the problems with the US’s feeble health infrastructure to such a point that we have these countless “unexplainable” deaths.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
          29·
          3 days ago

          Sure, lack of socialized healthcare is a huge part of it, but there are other many other compounding factors as well. Lack of sick leave, unhealthy lifestyle, car culture, nutrition, psychological alienation, etc. The pandemic acted as an accelerant feeding on all these festering problems.

      • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        27·
        3 days ago

        If their data ends in 2023, it’s likely still a pretty big chunk of it. Florida was open for business by July 2020, they were fighting mask mandates by the fall. I don’t think any western nation let it rip as fast as we did. Most held back until they had the majority of their population vaxxed. Gotta figure we’ve basically got a couple year start on the rest of the western world.

  • TheModerateTankie [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    39·
    3 days ago

    The US fucking hates its own citizens and COVID + knock on effects like brain damage, organ damage, and vascular damage + shitty healthcare made just about everything worse. I’m sure the “kids don’t get COVID” myth that got popularized when kids had to stay at home and the rise of antivax weirdos hasn’t helped.

  • Soot [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    22·
    3 days ago

    Are we really still asking why Americans die in larger quantities than other western nations? The numbers are fairly clear. Guns, worsening healthcare, worsening poverty, and worsening car culture. same-as-it-ever-was

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    45·
    3 days ago

    I legitimately don’t know anyone who’s actually happy or optimistic for the future

    Even my friends who have kids are more terrified than excited

    Hell, I personally decided against having kids because I can barely keep myself going some days, no way I’m gonna be the depressed dad who fucks up his kids

    Only thing keeping me together some days is my volunteer work and even then, some of the shit i see…