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   scriptjunkie (sj@social.scriptjunkie.us)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 04:42:17 JST scriptjunkie

   US life expectancy went down in each of the 5 years prior to 2019. Then as COVID-19 spread it went up consistently every year since. I think about this a lot.

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     scriptjunkie (sj@social.scriptjunkie.us)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 10:33:03 JST scriptjunkie

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     • Tod Beardsley

     @todb https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/usa/united-states/life-expectancy
     Honestly not sure of the root source of data

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     Tod Beardsley (todb@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 10:33:04 JST Tod Beardsley

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     @sj huh will you look at that.

     Maybe the net benefits of widespread masking and handwashing? Less road travel in 2020 (and beyond thanks to WFH normalization?)

     Covid-19 changed a lot of day-to-day life.

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     Tod Beardsley (todb@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 10:33:04 JST Tod Beardsley

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     @sj I mean there definitely were millions of "extra" deaths due to Covid, so it's strange that they're not reflected. Not enough to move the needle on long-term projections?

     Source? How is this measured? (Life expectancy charts I've seen are usually in the context of the year a given population is born in, location and gender matters a lot, etc etc.)

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     scriptjunkie (sj@social.scriptjunkie.us)'s status on Friday, 23-May-2025 01:37:57 JST scriptjunkie

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     @nobletrout @todb I do think many people adopted healthier lifestyles, there's tons of cyclists for example who started then. I have a feeling data might be delayed as well, but I'm still curious about the pre-2020 periods of gain and slide.

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     nobletrout (nobletrout@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 23-May-2025 01:37:58 JST nobletrout

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     @todb @sj it killed older people, so probably doesn’t move the needle much on life expectancy. There are less births now, probably with less mortalities than before which can move the needle a lot more.

     Save babies, increase life expectancy. Save 40+ year olds? Eh.