Another surprise from the "Duh!" file. A recent study noted that those least likely to be happy in the U. S. of A. were middle-aged, as opposed to the young or wretched. Our conclusion was, "No shit, most middle-aged people, as opposed to the puerile or decrepit, have jobs. We'd be unhappy too."
Further proof arrives in
a study from left-wing academics (pardon our redundancy) that indicates 16 or 17% more of you goofy-ass workers are offing yourselves. Rats in a cage chewing each other to death, when you get right down to it.
More research is needed to identify the forces that are causing people ages 40 to 64 to take their own lives and to develop prevention strategies that might stem the tide, Baker said. In the meantime, she wrote, public health officials should take note of "a change in the epidemiology of suicide'' that has made middle-aged whites "a new high-risk group for suicide.''
Maybe, maybe not. We've a suspicion.
Before 1999, the U.S. suicide rate had declined for 13 years. The new numbers are especially puzzling because other research has found that for most people, middle age "is a time of relative security and emotional well-being,'' Baker and her colleagues wrote in their paper.
Started in 1999, did it? About the time the right wing was going nuts trying to smear Clinton, followed by the right wing stealing as many elections as it could, & eight yrs. of...(We dare not speak its name.) That could certainly lead to a death-wish.
Check also w/ the
L. A. Times, which goes the extra mile & gets statements from other academics not involved w/ the study. And gives a different rate for the increase than Bloomberg does.
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