Why the United States can't handle crisis

For people my age, whose formative years were filled with the effects of u, the odds are that the entirety of your lived experience has been one of crisis if you were born at any point after the 1980s. s activity our earliest memories include 911 and the invasion of iraq under false pretenses then we had the 2008 housing crash the realization that climate change was nearing a point of no return the acceleration of suicidal deregulation and privatization which has left our infrastructure weak and fragile the skyrocketing cost of tuition saddling young people who were told college was the only way to succeed with insurmountable debt and increasingly worthless degrees we've seen the birth and rapid rise of the gig economy relegating huge portions of the population to precarity and poverty and of course we've watched our coveted response become the worst in the world despite having advanced knowledge of the danger and plenty of resources to handle the situation appropriately for millennials and younger generations there's no such thing as the good old days we never experienced them we'll cover that topic more thoroughly in a future video but in this week's episode we're going to examine why the u. This video could easily last longer than an hour because there has been an alarming increase in crisis mismanagement over the past few decades. Instead, we're going to focus on a select few of them before moving on to the major ones. Let's start with an issue that is uniquely American: obesity. At first glance, you might not think that obesity is a crisis, but when you look at the numbers in the U. Things get a little worse as of 2018, 42.4% of all American adults were obese. This number sharply increased between 2000 and 2018, rising by nearly 12, while the prevalence of severe obesity nearly doubled, from 4.7% to 9.2%. Obesity in children is also a major issue, with nearly 1 in 5 of those between the ages of 2 and 19 being obese. Obesity is a serious health condition that comes with a host of negative consequences. 147 billion dollars, and given the rise in obesity rates over the intervening years, we can only assume that cost has increased significantly. Obesity is responsible for nearly one in five deaths in the United States. That's a crisis that isn't discussed nearly enough right now some people will just tell those who are obese to eat better, which is reasonable, but the causes of the crisis go far beyond personal responsibility. In the 1950s, after President Eisenhower suffered a heart attack, scientists debated the causes of obesity, which was known to cause heart disease. There were two main schools of thought, one led by British physiologist and nutritionist J. Moving on to our final major crisis, the coronavirus, we're now right around the one-year mark for when Americans really began to realize just how serious the problem was in the past year over 500 000 American deaths from kovid we've had more cases and more deaths than anywhere else on earth this is the worst outbreak of kovid in recorded history. Republicans opposed mass mandates and claimed that the illness was no worse than the flu or that it was a Chinese hoax, and Democrats paid lip service to science but lied about how well they were handling their city's outbreaks, but politicians are not the only ones to fabricate facts when the country is in disarray. However, the politicians are not the only ones to lie. Vietnam, a nation with a 261 billion dollar gross domestic product, completely destroyed the United States, a nation with a 20 trillion dollar gross domestic product. Of course, you won't hear about this because it's not the first time the United States has chosen to keep quiet about losing to the Vietnamese, so yes, by all metrics, the United States' coronavirus response has been among the worst in the world.


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