Death rates up 40%, setting new 200-year high, life insurance company CEO says

[douglas9]

Scott Davison is the CEO of OneAmerica, an Indianapolis-based life insurance company founded in the 19th century. To start the new year, Davison told the audience of an online news conference that “We are seeing, right now, the highest death rates we have seen in the history of this business—not just at OneAmerica. The data is consistent across every player in that business.”

According to Davidson, the third and fourth quarters of this past year saw death rates “up 40% over what they were pre-pandemic.” Even more distressing, explains Davison, is that this is not some demographic anomaly with the eldest members of our society passing on. The 40% rise in death rates is consistent for working-class folks 18 to 64-years-old. “Just to give you an idea of how bad that is, a three-sigma or 200-year catastrophe would be a 10% increase over pre-pandemic levels.”


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2072827

[Demovictory9]

1. to the "its just the flu" folks, numbers don't lie.

[ret5hd]

2. Maybe they will listen to their...

free market capitalist parasitical death-panel friends. Yeah them, the insurance companies.

[nitpicker]

3. IMO, it's not just COVID

It's also all the other people that postponed, or never got, their needed care.

Example: ME.

I was scheduled for a colonoscopy in March 2020,but cancelled ((just before I would have been cancelled)) as COVID cases spiked as facilities and health care workers were short of everything ((including PPE and rooms)).

Fast forward to October when some dust was settled and I went in. This rude polyp gave me the finger...

[Zeitghost]

4. The death rate from 2019 to 2020

Increased 18%.

[albacore]

5. Remember the term "excess deaths"?

My bet is that we will find a MUCH higher death numbers after the pandemic (hopefully) runs its course.
The numbers-crunchers at IHME are predicting over 1 million dead Americans by May 1.