The novel coronavirus constituted the country’s third leading cause of death in 2020, according to preliminary data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But the lockdowns and the Black Lives Matter movement also killed us in extraordinary numbers. In fact, they disproportionately victimized the groups they were intended to protect.

Overall life expectancy in the United States fell by one and a half years to 77.3 years. Last year alone erased over a decade of medical progress, and it did so unequally. Whereas a white woman’s life expectancy only fell by 1.1 years, the average black man lost three years and can no longer expect to live past his 60s.