Math has nothing to do with it. It’s the violated expectations. You expect that your elderly grandmother might get pneumonia and die some day soon. You expect an occasional young person to die after catching the flu. You don’t expect the carnage that is going on now, with a lot of people dying before they reach their a priori life expectancy. In that way the deaths seem premature for a lot of people, as opposed to premature for some and overly mature for others, with the average being where you expect it.
Math has nothing to do with it. It’s the violated expectations. You expect that your elderly grandmother might get pneumonia and die some day soon. You expect an occasional young person to die after catching the flu. You don’t expect the carnage that is going on now, with a lot of people dying before they reach their a priori life expectancy. In that way the deaths seem premature for a lot of people, as opposed to premature for some and overly mature for others, with the average being where you expect it.
Yes… but what is their a priori life expectancy?