We're All as Tired as Post Malone Right Now (per the CDC)

I was driving to get coffee with my husband the other day when he turned to me, completely out of nowhere, and said, "Why am I always tired?"

I almost laughed, because same (Post Malone has that tattooed on his face for a reason), but he picked a good time to ask. The CDC just put out a report on exactly this: 71.5% of U.S. adults said they'd felt fatigued at some point in the last three months, and 16.6% said it was most days, or every day. Not tired-tired. The kind that doesn't go away with sleep. And for almost 40% of the people in that group, it wasn't mild; it was a lot. I used to think more sleep would fix it, but apparently that's not really how it works (even if you use a silk pillowcase).

The same report found it's actually worse for younger adults than older ones: 19.5% of 18-to-34-year-olds said they're frequently fatigued, compared to under 13% of people over 65.

Women are also more likely than men to land in that most-days-or-every-day group — 20% of us, versus 13% of men. Which means, statistically, I'm the one who's supposed to be asking that question in this car, not him.

Except he's actually good at this part: we split the three kids, the doctor's appointments, the permission slips, who has practice when, pretty evenly. If he's doing his half and he's still that tired, something else might be going on.

So instead of making a joke about it, I handed him my coffee and told him to go book a physical.