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The data tells me you are completely wrong in your assertion. Life expectancy (in the US) has been on a very steady and continuous increase. https://www.macrotr

The data tells me you are completely wrong in your assertion. Life expectancy (in the US) has been on a very steady and continuous increase. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/life-expectancy https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/life... However, lifespan is a crude metric. Healthspan is really what we should be targeting. I don't want to live to 150 if 60 of those years are spend miserable in a nursing home hooked up to machines keeping me alive.

standardUser 4y ago
Life expectancy has actually dropped over the last two years, but it would be some severe cherry-picking to not acknowledge the role COVID played in that, let alone the multi-decade trend of increasing life expectancy overall.
- dumpsterlid 4y ago
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Retric 4y ago
Your chart show’s declining life expectancy from 2014-2018, but it’s recent data also disagrees with other sources. “In 2021, an American was expected to live 76.1 years—down 2.8 years from the 2014 peak of 78.9 years. This backslide has erased all life expectancy gains since 1996, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.” https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/life-expectancy-is-declining-in-the-us https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/life-expectancy-is-declini... For more data check here: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr023.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr023.pdf
- standardUser 4y ago
  Like I said in my related comment, some severe cherry-picking.
  - Retric 4y ago
    US Life expectancy fell in 10 of the last 12 years. That doesn’t seem like cherry picking to me.
    - standardUser 4y ago
      We both know the trajectory has been towards longer lives and the only major aberration is the one we have just experienced due to the pandemic. Yes, you can probably find some sets of years where in increase was minimal or there was a minor decline, but the larger trend is so painfully obvious we shouldn't even be discussing it.
      - Retric 4y ago
        Every single year after 2014 has had a lower life expectancy than 2014, that’s a real indication that the long term trend has changed. Granted we might reasonably exclude COVID when trying to figure out the trend, but even then it looks at best flat from 2010.
- twobitshifter 4y ago
  Is this adjusted for the pandemic?
  - Retric 4y ago
    In what way? The decrease in life expectancy from 2014-2018 is well before the pandemic. Going forward when say pricing life insurance it’s worth considering pandemics or at minimum the the likely endemic nature of coronavirus variants becoming endemic.

standardUser 4y ago

Life expectancy has actually dropped over the last two years, but it would be some severe cherry-picking to not acknowledge the role COVID played in that, let alone the multi-decade trend of increasing life expectancy overall.

dumpsterlid 4y ago
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Retric 4y ago

Your chart show’s declining life expectancy from 2014-2018, but it’s recent data also disagrees with other sources. “In 2021, an American was expected to live 76.1 years—down 2.8 years from the 2014 peak of 78.9 years. This backslide has erased all life expectancy gains since 1996, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.” https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/life-expectancy-is-declining-in-the-us https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/life-expectancy-is-declini... For more data check here: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr023.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr023.pdf

standardUser 4y ago
Like I said in my related comment, some severe cherry-picking.
- Retric 4y ago
  US Life expectancy fell in 10 of the last 12 years. That doesn’t seem like cherry picking to me.
  - standardUser 4y ago
    We both know the trajectory has been towards longer lives and the only major aberration is the one we have just experienced due to the pandemic. Yes, you can probably find some sets of years where in increase was minimal or there was a minor decline, but the larger trend is so painfully obvious we shouldn't even be discussing it.
    - Retric 4y ago
      Every single year after 2014 has had a lower life expectancy than 2014, that’s a real indication that the long term trend has changed. Granted we might reasonably exclude COVID when trying to figure out the trend, but even then it looks at best flat from 2010.
twobitshifter 4y ago
Is this adjusted for the pandemic?
- Retric 4y ago
  In what way? The decrease in life expectancy from 2014-2018 is well before the pandemic. Going forward when say pricing life insurance it’s worth considering pandemics or at minimum the the likely endemic nature of coronavirus variants becoming endemic.