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Life expectancy is a socialist propaganda metric created by our enemies to undermine our Freedoms and Democracy™
The correct standard is market-adjusted life years normalized to gross-margin per dollar
From article:

U.S. life expectancy continued its steady, alarming decline in 2021, as covid-19 and illegal drugs took the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans, according to final government data released Thursday.  
Notably, every age group in the U.S. — from young children to seniors 85 and older — saw a rise in its death rate. Men, women and most racial groups lost ground. In some previous years, even when overall life expectancy declined, some groups advanced.  
Life expectancy in the U.S. dropped to 76.4 years at birth, down from 77 in 2020. The data reinforces a trend line of American longevity declining relative to that of its peer nations. A child born in the United States in 2019, for instance, could expect to live to 78.5, according to the World Health Organization, while a Japanese child born that year had a life expectancy of 84.5, Belgians lived to 81.4 and Swedes lived to 82.4. >

So many Americans will read this and shrug. They will either think, "Good, let the poors and stupids die off already." Or they will think, "Good, I don't want to live till I am 80 anyway."
It isn't just 70-somethings dying, though.  Or poors.  Or stupids. >

Most people dying from covid right now are actually elderly vaccinated people (most people in the US are vaccinated, so not surprising that most deaths would be to vaccinated people). Not that the vaccine caused this but it’s no longer politically related. No one cares anymore—it’s just part of life now. >

I'm not a researcher, but I'd expect that:


2000-2001 deaths are the major contributor to a drop in life expectancy (politics)


2002+ vaccinated/Omicron deaths represent a much smaller uptick in overall death rates, and are not what drove down life expectancy >

We are averaging about 400 deaths and 70,000 cases per day in the US right now, so not negligible. But it was quite low for most of this year.