[Loughla]

What problems have had advancements in treatment in the last 20 years? HIV/AIDS, cancer, diabetes. Those are just three things off the top of my head that I know have improved, even without data to support me.

I'm not sure, with the speed of technological improvements in the last decade, that 20 years is appropriate.

[samatman]

Over the last two decades, life expectancy has either peaked in the developed world, or has even declined for some demographics.

Seems appropriate to me.

[mcguire]

Not in Sweden. Life expectancy has gone from 77.4 to 81.3 for men since 2000. It does go up every year except for 2014/2015 (80.4 to 80.3).

https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subje...

[Veen]

Interestingly, in the UK the average age of people who die from coronavirus (82.4) is slightly older than the average age of people dying of other causes (81.5).

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/average-age-of-coronaviru...

[rualca]

Why, think about it.

Covid deaths are practically concentrated on age groups over 65 years old.

People dying from other causes aggregate multiple causes which, due to the aggregation, are spread out over the whole age range.

Due to the pyramid shape of the population distribution (they call it population pyramid for a reason) then the median and the mean are shifted towards the base/younger age groups.

Hell, if a disease affected mankind in a way that killed everyone uniformly, the average age of people dying would be around 30 years old.

The way you presented your conclusion implies that dying from covid actually extends your life, which is absurd.

Instead, it just reads that it kills older people disproportionately, and the older you are the more likely you are of dying from it.

[marcell]

Curious if you looked at the underlying data.

Aside from 2018, this year does not even look like much of an outlier: https://mobile.twitter.com/TLennhamn/status/1295269505984344... . 2012 seems to have been deadlier, for Sweden, than 2020, which was 8 years ago.

[Spare_account]

What about other countries?

[0-_-0]

Other coutries used lockdowns.

[fairity]

Sweden basically did a lockdown - it just wasn't state-mandated.

If you look at the mobility data [1], you'll see that Sweden followed a very similar trend to its neighbors, and actually maintained lower mobility after other state-mandated lockdowns let up.

[1] https://www.teliacompany.com/sv/om-foretaget/uppdatering/mob...

[0-_-0]

The arbitrary choice of the reference point makes that bad data.

[Gwypaas]

Either way, using Stockholm as the geographical reference point the chosen point correlates against dark cold Januari/Februari with average temperatures of -1°C and 7-8 hours of twilight. Considering that keeping the relative number below at the height of summer is quite impressive.