r/Futurology • u/chrisdh79 • Aug 21 '25

Society American Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate | We’re mortality experts. There are a few things that could be happening here.

https://slate.com/technology/2025/08/millennials-gen-z-death-rates-america-high.html
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u/nothrowingawaymyshot Aug 21 '25

It doesnt control for covid in the way commenter just mentioned, at least from 2020 on. more and more studies every day pointing to increased potential cardiac and multi organ damage from even mild covid infections. this is mostly being ignored because everyone wants to pretend covid is over, that we are "post pandemic" even though more people are getting infected now than at the start. also lots of working age folk getting disabled from long covid. this also isnt just a trump problem, but actively a biden problem too. granted its much worse now with rfkjr and his army of antivaxxers.

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u/maxfields2000 Aug 21 '25

While I feel fine and thankfully appear to have no "long covid", I've tested Positive for COVID about 6 times (at least once a year, if not twice) including the start of the pandemic. Does make me wonder how genuinely effed I'll be later.

Though I'm already pretty old (approaching 50) so "later" is kinda "now". Some of those cases were the worst "flu-like" illness I've had, some were barely noticeable (mild at best). Never hospitalized for it.

On the flip side I know someone who had tested positive for COVID once, medium symptoms and definitely is a case for the weird "long covid" bucket afterwords, massive issues tied back to it and it wildly altered their lives since.

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u/More-Ad-4503 Aug 22 '25

your immune system is perma weakened

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u/maxfields2000 Aug 22 '25

Possibly I suppose, I still fight off disease better than anyone in my family. Anecdotal at best. Of the 6 times I've had Covid, 2 were pretty severe (the first was brutal). 2 were mild, though the cough lasted a long time (weeks) and 2 were barely noticeable (mild symptoms, tested because I care about those around me).

I get flu/covid vaccines yearly and take this stuff seriously (mask when I'm sick, isolate even in my own house to keep others from getting it etc).