> The last data I saw said an average of more than 10 years of expected life lost. That isn't just data, it's data plus a set of assumptions. Won't you please

> The last data I saw said an average of more than 10 years of expected life lost. That isn't just data, it's data plus a set of assumptions. Won't you please further this discussion and share it instead of making vague allegations about right-wing conspiracies? It's well known that Covid-19 is by wildly disproportionately more lethal as age increases[1] and it's also well known that older people on average have less life left than younger people. Also please note that deaths of despair is a broader category than suicide[2]. Someone who drinks himself to death isn't counted as a suicide, even though it's a person taking action that ends his own life earlier than it otherwise would. Alcohol consumption has increased markedly during the pandemic[3]. Caring about 2nd and higher order effects isn't a right-wing conspiracy theory, it's just a sensible, intelligent, and compassionate thing to do. We should expect better than kindergarten tier reasoning from our leadership. [1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-age.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investi... [2] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-same-number-of-people-could-die-from-deaths-of-despair-as-have-already-died-in-the-us-from-coronavirus-new-study-finds-2020-05-08 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-same-number-of-people-... [3] https://abcnews.go.com/US/alcohol-consumption-rising-sharply-pandemic-women/story?id=73302479 https://abcnews.go.com/US/alcohol-consumption-rising-sharply...