"The largest drop in life expectancy in recorded history"? Life expectancy dropped by 2.56 years between 1990 and 1999 in Russia. Not great but not even close

"The largest drop in life expectancy in recorded history"? Life expectancy dropped by 2.56 years between 1990 and 1999 in Russia. Not great but not even close to being historically significant. Life expectancy in the USA dropped by nearly 3 years in the space of 2 years between 2019 and 2021. More than the entire 1990s in Russia. Or if you want to see what an extreme drop in life expectancy looks like, it dropped by 16 years in between 1940 and 1945 in Germany.