Life expectancy for the U.S. fell in 2020 from 78.8 in 2019 to \u201cjust\u201d 77 in 2020, and major media are having a field day talking about the precipitous \u201ccliff\u201d of death that the pandemic has created.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a drop of 2.3%. But is it really as bad as it sounds? Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute explains it in terms of relativity, i.e., what the drop means relative to what the life expectancy has been in the past 20 years.<\/p>\n
And his conclusion is that, first, \u201clife expectancy in the U.S. had already all but screeched to a halt\u00a0in the decade leading up to 2020,\u201d and second, that when taken in context and \u201ceven considering recent data on life expectancy and mortality,\u00a0it remains extremely unclear why 2020\u2019s changes in these metrics would justify the extreme panic and human rights violations that resulted from stay-at-home edicts and\u00a0coerced medication.\u201d<\/p>\n