Life expectancy is a long term trend. Why would you use it to measure the impact of a pandemic? Answer: Because you can hide the one bad year with the last 100

Life expectancy is a long term trend. Why would you use it to measure the impact of a pandemic? Answer: Because you can hide the one bad year with the last 100 good years of data and trending. Maybe you should use population growth projections from 1970 to 2070 to show that this isn't even a pandemic?