We’re all expected to live shorter lives now thanks to Covid
That’s now how the data works. This does not mean your life will be shorter than otherwise expected. But the media and social media commenters are running with this.
Related: What would you have done differently to have stopped Covid?
We tried:
- lockdowns
- We closed schools for almost a year and a half
- We closed all non-essential work, putting 40 million out of work for a time
- We made many people work from home
- We made people stay six feet apart
- One-way aisles in the stores that were allowed to be open in my state (many were not allowed to be open)
- We closed access to non-life threatening health care
- We made people wear homemade cloth face masks, then surgical masks, then very late in the process, recommended N95s. These were mandated on all public transit, air travel and in air terminals
- We made vaccination – multiple times – mandatory for many
- Most countries closed their borders, and most travel was banned
And in about 2+ years, almost everyone had had Covid-19 at least once.
What would you do differently?
