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Life expectancy is a population average. You don't die just because you reach that age. There are quite a few studies showing that life years lost due to Covid

• Manuel_D 5y ago
  True, but it's drastically more likely that someone over 65 would have died over the course of the pandemic (which is approaching several years at this point) than someone between 18-65. Years lost from elderly deaths may be "substantial" but it's an act of wilful ignorance to pretend that it isn't a lot smaller than years of life lost from a 20 year old dying.
  • Tycho 5y ago
    But also, the subset of people who died from Covid is almost certainly not akin to a random sample from the broader population of the age cohort (and therefore not a subset which you could apply those life expectancy averages to).