Joe Jackson wrote:
Got all your irrelevant childish insults out of your system, yet?
The excess death tallies tell us one thing at the moment: more people are dying this year than usual/expected.
What does that tell us about years of life lost? Very little to absolutely nothing. We don't know when those same people were going to die absent all of this mess.
The median age of COVID-19 deaths equaling the average life expectancy for someone in the US strongly suggests that those dying didn't have many more years of life left, though. Logically, if they did, the average life expectancy would be higher, wouldn't it?
But as I said above, we'll find out in the years to come. It's impossible to conclude anything right now, unless there's more to this data than what I'm seeing.
When you continue to repeat life expectancy at birth as some sort of meaningful metric for a living 74 year old it becomes clear that either:
1) You are willfully ignoring the actuarial data and arguments presented to you
2) You lack the ability to understand the straightforward math
3) You are trolling
In any case, you are trying to downplay the cost of hundreds of thousands of deaths by basically saying "we can't know for sure yet" using a flawed, back of the napkin argument.
Why not google 'life years lost COVID' and understand how people with real training attempt to estimate these things?