A Record Share of Americans Is Living Alone
July 10th, 2023“People are living longer — or they were, until the pandemic arrived.”
Mmm hmm.
Wonder Week 24 2023 update.
Sudden Cardiac Death Mortality in younger persons grew from 24.8% to 28.2% excess from wk 20 to 24 of 2023.
Whatever this is, it's not going away – killing more young people per week than Covid did at its absolute peak.
No overdoses in this data. pic.twitter.com/5Jl9fTzR9M
— Ethical Skeptic ? (@EthicalSkeptic) July 8, 2023
Via: The Hill:
Nearly 30 percent of American households comprise a single person, a record high.
Scholars say living alone is not a trend so much as a transformation: Across much of the world, large numbers of people are living alone for the first time in recorded history.
“It’s just a stunning social change,” said Eric Klinenberg, a sociologist at New York University and author of the book “Going Solo.” “I came to see it as the biggest demographic change in the last century that we failed to recognize and take seriously.”
Homo sapiens is a social animal. Historians tapped ancient census rolls to show that our species has lived in groups for as long as such records have existed, stretching back at least to 1600.
The U.S. Census shows that “solitaries” made up 8 percent of all households in 1940. The share of solo households doubled to 18 percent in 1970 and more than tripled, to an estimated 29 percent, by 2022.
The solo-living movement intersects with several other societal trends. Americans are marrying later, if at all. The nation is aging. The national birthrate is falling. People are living longer — or they were, until the pandemic arrived.
The chart by Ethical Skeptic that appears before the living alone article doesn’t make much sense to me. Maybe it’s a parody, with it’s “Post-Inflection” excess deaths? Nor does the conclusion that “Whatever this is, it isn’t going away”. Is the author only predicting a week or two ahead, or does he mean excess deaths will continue for a year or ten years or ??? Weird ‘science’.
Yes they is… but the following statement left me scratching my aging head :
“Historians tapped ancient census rolls to show that our species has lived in groups for as long as such records have existed, stretching back at least to 1600.”
Four hundred and twenty-three years doesn’t feel terribly “ancient” in greater scheme of things. If the author means 1600 *BC*, he should probably indicate as much.
If so, in light of realities like the most recent series of Anatolian discoveries dating human society and agricultural habits into at least the “Neolithic”, it’s hard not to wonder if they is taking the piss.
If so, Miraculix, I’m not amused. The New World Holocaust isn’t funny.
Maybe AI made the chart? Feed it lots of info but not all the rules for how to handle the info, and voila?
Maybe The Hill article was written the same way? That would account for “back to 1600.”
Looking at that original article, I don’t see the chart anywhere.