Cradle And All
America Dissected
Incision Media LLC
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Today, many of us can take it for granted that our grandparents will live through our childhood— and that our children might get to meet them. Not that long ago, though, that wasn't so common. Not just because our grandparents didn't used to live that long, but because so many babies died before their first birthday. In most American communities, infant mortality is a thing of the past. But not in all of them. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed takes us to Detroit to dissect American life expectancy— to understand why it's declining and why it may never have been as high as it should have been in the first place.
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| 0:00.0 | It's a pretty great time to be alive. |
| 0:02.0 | Diseases that devastated millions of our predecessors, |
| 0:05.0 | like smallpox or the plague, |
| 0:07.0 | are either gone or exceedingly rare. |
| 0:09.0 | I took it for granted that my daughter |
| 0:11.0 | would get to spend time with her great-grandparents. |
| 0:13.0 | She and they, having lived long enough |
| 0:15.0 | for that to be common these days. |
| 0:17.0 | Life expectancy has skyrocketed over the past century. |
| 0:20.0 | And given advancements and science and technology, |
| 0:23.0 | that should keep going, right? |
| 0:25.0 | Another shock of a story. |
| 0:27.0 | Life expectancy dropping in the US for the third straight year. |
| 0:31.0 | This news should be alarming. |
| 0:33.0 | Life expectancy isn't supposed to go down. |
| 0:36.0 | Sure, at some point it can no longer go up. |
| 0:39.0 | I mean, I don't see us living past 110 anytime soon, |
| 0:42.0 | despite the best efforts of tech billionaires. |
| 0:44.0 | But overall, you expect to live longer than your parents, |
| 0:47.0 | who expected to live longer than theirs, |
| 0:49.0 | and so on and so forth. |
| 0:51.0 | Our failure to address some of the issues |
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