The decline in inflation was restrained by: higher pressures on prices of an increasingly wider list of consumer-basket goods and services due to the rise in food and energy prices businesses’ higher expenses on logistics and wages domestic consumer demand remaining robust despite a slight deterioration in consumer confidence and the quarantine restrictions. Additional pro-inflationary risks have also materialized.
In the first place, longevity is surely to everyone's benefit. The fact that we can live longer in good health has been achieved through human endeavor in fields such as medical technology and in the spread of education. Economic policies and institutions must be adapted so that these achievements can improve  1  the economic welfare of everyone, including future generations.