Seems still higher some countries and lower in others. I'm not familiar with the country codes, so if someone is maybe enlighten me. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

higher on average and lower in some eastern Europe countries

It seems the article was going to say it was an increasing drug-use (opioid) and mental health epidemic in the US (which seems likely true). Then took a left turn and blamed the deaths of middle aged people on getting a Covid vaccine as a baby—citing a yale study on side-effects that showed people were more depressed and anxious post-vaccination than they expected as “evidence” that the vaccine was contributing to excess mortality

Do you have a source on those claims?

All I can find is Europe experiencing excess death:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

And similarly, the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have 1/1000 rate of serious adverse events:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36055877/

A pro-active study of Pfizer from Thailand observed 1 in 35 showing elevated bio markers of heart damage:

https://www.mdpi.com/2414-6366/7/8/196

That rate looks not-statistically significant in that study. And also not too “serious” (in layman’s terms, not medically speaking) as the baseline rate for the placebo was 18/10000 (the 1/1000 is a delta value above that)