True statement but it should be the other way around. Deaths by overdoses are much more impactful in terms of life expectancy decline, since they mostly kill younger people.
Let's say the average age of someone who dies from Covid is 75. Their life expectancy is another 11 years. [4] And someone who dies from an overdose or accident at 30 would have had another 48 years on average. There would have to be (400,000*11)/48 = 92,000 (rough math) additional overdose and accident deaths to come close to the impact Covid has had on life expectancy decline.
[1] https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2021/...
[3] https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/early-estimate-2021-tra...
Then we'd have to look at how younger generations were sacrificed for the older.
Then we might have to talk about how that happens in many areas, from wealth distribution to climate change policy, from environmental policy to corporate accountability. Not to mention the wars.
Can't be letting that type of discussion into the zeitgeist. Wealthy people might get upset.
It requires an incredible amount of privilege to buy into the Covid narrative that got sold to people.
I know there's a cohort of people that are pointing out at a certain national level field experiment as the cause of increased mortality, but there are also very valid reasons why we would see an increase in mortality now. More data will reveal to which degree each group is correct, and thankfully, we have a robust control group.
This, of course, actually depends on the numbers from both (both ages and volumes).
The graph has a very clear inflection point from 2019 to 2020, overdoses were increasing for quite a while before that, so do you actually have numbers suggesting that the 2020 and 2021 impact of overdoses and accidents is greater than the completely-new-to-those-years factor?
Imagine what would have been different if we used the industry standard way if measuring this sort of thing…