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Looks like that dovetail pretty well with gp's point - people loose 10 year or so of their expected life span (or a little over one tenth of their time on this
by e12e 6y ago
Looks like that dovetail pretty well with gp's point - people loose 10 year or so of their expected life span (or a little over one tenth of their time on this earth) - if I put in 79 and male here, I get an average expectancy of 90:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthandlifeexpectancies/articles/lifeexpectancycalculator/2019-06-07 https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...
- dragonwriter 6y agoYeah, too many people, for some reason, don’t understand that “Life expectancy at age N” is not at all the same, in general, as “Life expectancy at birth minus N”.
- CryptoPunk 6y agoDoes that account for the high rates of co-morbidities associated with coronavirus deaths? I remember reading that 99% of Italian victims had co-morbidities. In any case, I wouldn't doubt that the victims had their lives cut short by several years. The same could be said about other illnesses where most fatal cases are among the elderly, e.g. if the typical elderly victim of cancer hadn't contracted it, they would likely have lived for several more years.