Context: First, the life expectancy of someone 78 is not -1. It's almost ten years (although life expectancies dropped significantly last year because of the virus). cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr…
I don't know whether of not Tucker knows how life expectancy works, but he's playing into the trope that maybe COVID deaths don't exist at all because those who died are so old. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
COVID-19 is not unusual in this respect. For example, the median COVID death is *younger* than median heart disease death.
Why doesn't Tucker say "take that, doctors" for heart attacks?
Why doesn't Tucker say "take that, doctors" for heart attacks?
This makes sense if you think about it. If you don't die during childhood or in an accident, natural causes should tend to kill those *older* than life expectancy at birth.
Finally, even if only younger deaths count for some immoral reason, ~150,000 people under 67 died of COVID. That's over seven years' worth of homicides. And orders of magnitude more than illegal immigrants or Roma people kill.
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