Official COVID Policies shorten your Life

Post #532

The COVID Containment Index put out by the University of Oxford tells you if a nation is aligned with the official COVID policies. It was previously shown that following the official COVID policies actually led to higher excess death rates than not following them — making them counter-productive policies.

The Containment Index of three nations representative of “high” and “medium” and “low” helps to view the difference:

But an important question to ask regarding these three levels of implementation of COVID policies is:

What effect did these 3 levels of mitigation efforts have on life expectancy in 2022?

Here is the effect of having high mitigation measures throughout (Hong Kong), moderate levels (USA), and low levels of COVID mitigation policies (Sweden):

The outcome from following official COVID policies reveals that, the more you followed them, the lower your 2022 life expectancy (at age 15).

Following the official COVID policies shortens your life.

Reference

[containment of COVID with mitigation measures] — COVID-19 Containment and Health Index. Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker, Blavatnik School of Government, Universityof Oxford. OWID. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-stringency-index

[2022 life expectancy at age 15] — United Nations - World Population Prospects (2022); Human Mortality Database (2023). OWID. https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy