I think this is something lost from the early concerns of COVID and understanding causality from prenatal effects upward.

They were saying 10 years of your life were being wacked off all in one go. If that is true (hard to fully tell with thorough research) then those who died would have been dead in 10 years and then when it if we reach out old age death there could have been 10 more if not for the damage done.

If we look at the study of an orphans brain that showed a 9% (I believe, just going off memory) which is a qualitative and quantities reduction in one’s livelihood, then we can expect actions that would greatly reduce one’s life. Typically , for example, chemical dependency’s or sporadic dangerous behaviors. That all lead to shorter average lives. Sure people can turn to the outlier, but they are never good examples to go off of.

We just don’t understand as humans long term effects. Animals that in the moment versus this more evolved being that must plan for the future if we are to survive it. Nor do we care enough to reduce those risks even on ourselves.