Amazing statistic: "Life expectancy in the United States fell by a full year during the first half of 2020, a staggering decline that reflects the toll of the covid-19 pandemic as well as a rise in deaths from drug overdoses, heart attacks and diseases that accompanied the outbreak, according to government data released Thursday. The last time life expectancy at birth dropped more dramatically was during World War II. Americans can now expect to live as long as they did in 2006, according to the provisional data released by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Black and Latino Americans were hit harder than Whites, reflecting the racial disparities of the pandemic, according to the new analysis. Black Americans lost 2.7 years of life expectancy, and Latinos lost 1.9. White life expectancy fell 0.8 years."
That's going to happen when hundreds of thousands of people are dying in a pandemic. But we've got folks saying it's no big deal.
The average age of death is dropping because we locked down our country when we didn't need to and that increased drug and alcohol overdoses at large rate. The Covid average age of death is actually higher than the all cause US average age of death. So, I guess one can say Covid caused the average age of death to drop, but not the virus itself, more so the stupidity of our Govt leaders(Trump, CDC, WHO, Governors).
Its been about a year since I could do anything normally, so its even metaphorically true for the living
You want it to be that way, but it isn't. And just because the covid death average age is higher than the overall average age at death doesn't change how the statistics of life expectancy are calculated. You obviously don't understand how that statistic is calculated.
So answer me this. Let's say life expectancy is 78. And then something comes along and kills everyone above 78. Would life expectancy still be 78?
In 2019 drug od deaths were 70000 and alcohol related deaths about 100,000. Many of those alcohol related deaths were likely from years of alcoholism. So you are saying that drug and alcohol deaths more than quadrupled, which it would have taken to exceed covid deaths? Hahahahaha haha!
The stats are through 6/30/20 and the majority of covid deaths occurred after that. Life expectancy in the US has dropped the past few years due in large part to youth opioid deaths. Covid was at most only a small part of the drop referenced in the OP. The back half of the year will be really ugly.
US spends a lot more than other industrialized nations on healthcare but we have a shorter life span. Mismanaging a Covid pandemic certainly isn't going to help those numbers.
I don’t spend as much time around other people (never have) but I haven’t been isolated. Are you guys in full lockdown or something?
