> More Americans have died from COVID than all American soldiers lost in combat in all military engagements combined in our history, and we like our wars
What happens to that comparison if you look at years of life lost rather than deaths that coincided with a covid infection?
I don't know, but I have to assume it's not even close. Covid seemed (in the average case, of course there were exceptions) to push people who were near their life expectancy over the edge, whereas war takes young people with full healthy lives ahead of them and either kills or permanently damages them.
What happens to that comparison if you look at years of life lost rather than deaths that coincided with a covid infection?
I don't know, but I have to assume it's not even close. Covid seemed (in the average case, of course there were exceptions) to push people who were near their life expectancy over the edge, whereas war takes young people with full healthy lives ahead of them and either kills or permanently damages them.