That's terrifying!
Elephant in the room:More young Americans are dying – and it's not COVID. Why aren't we searching for answers?
Life insurance actuaries are reporting that many more people are dying – still – than in the years before the pandemic. And while deaths during COVID-19 had largely occurred among the old and infirm, this new wave is hitting prime-of-life people hard.
No one knows precisely what is driving the phenomenon, but there is an inexplicable lack of urgency to find out. A concerted investigation is in order.
Deaths among young Americans documented in employee life insurance claims should alone set off alarms. Among working people 35 to 44 years old, a stunning 34% more died than expected in the last quarter of 2022, with above-average rates in other working-age groups, too.
“COVID-19 claims do not fully explain the increase,” a Society of Actuaries report says.
From 2020 through 2022, there were more excess deaths proportionally among white-collar than blue-collar workers: 19% versus 14% above normal. The disparity nearly doubled among top-echelon workers in the fourth quarter of 2022, U.S. actuaries reported.
And there was an extreme and sudden increase in worker mortality in the fall of 2021 even as the nation saw a precipitous drop in COVID-19 deaths from a previous wave. In the third quarter of 2021, deaths among workers ages 35-44 reached a pandemic peak of 101% above – or double – the three-year pre-COVID baseline. In two other prime working-age groups, mortality was 79% above expected.
Excess deaths are a global phenomenon
This isn’t only happening in the United States. The United Kingdom also saw “more excess deaths in the second half of 2022 than in the second half of any year since 2010,” according to the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.
In the first quarter of 2023, deaths among people 20 to 44 years old were akin to “the same period in 2021, the worst pandemic year for that age group,” U.K. actuaries reported. Younger-age death rates were “particularly high” when compared with the average mortality for 2013 to 2020.
In Australia, 12% more people died than expected in 2022, according to that nation’s Actuaries Institute. A third of the excess was non-COVID deaths, a figure the institute called “extraordinarily high.”
Death rates are lower, of course, than in 2020 and 2021. But they are far from normal.
In the year ending April 30, 2023 – 14 months after the last of several pandemic waves in the United States – at least 104,000 more Americans died than expected, according to Our World in Data. In the U.K., 52,427 excess deaths were reported in that period; in Germany, 81,028; France, 17,731; Netherlands, 10,418; and Ireland, 2,640.
What explains this wave of excess deaths?
Week in, week out, this unnatural loss of life is on the scale of a war or terrorist event.
The actuarial reports can only speculate on the factors causing these deaths, including oft-cited delayed health care, drug overdoses and even weather patterns. But the question remains: What explains this ongoing wave of excess deaths?
Life insurance data suggests something happened in the fall of 2021 in workplaces, especially among white-collar workers. These are people whose education, income level and access to health care would predict better outcomes.
The executive of a large Indiana life insurance company was clearly troubled by what he said was a 40% increase in the third quarter of 2021 in those ages 18-64.
“We are seeing, right now, the highest death rates we have seen in the history of this business – not just at OneAmerica,” CEO Scott Davison said during an online news conference in January 2022. “The data is consistent across every player in that business.”
Governments and regulatory agencies should cooperate with life insurers to investigate this trend at the national and multinational level. Without a thorough and collaborative exploration, we can’t know what’s killing us – or how to stop it.
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Aug 22, 2023
In response to recent increases in reported COVID-19 cases at the company, movie studio, Lionsgate, has required masking at its Santa Monica flagship office according to a company email that was obtained by and reported by Deadline. This would apply to almost half of the company’s employees who would need to wear “medical grade” face masks again. The company rule applies “except when alone in an office with the door closed, actively eating, actively drinking at their desk or workstation, or if they are the only individual present in a large open workspace.” The company is conducting contact tracing and offering at-home COVID-19 test kits.
As college universities are beginning their fall semesters, a few schools are taking steps to protect their students. Rutgers University and Georgetown University are requiring masks. In addition, Morris Brown College in Atlanta announced it was reinstating its mask mandate due to reported COVID-19 cases.
On its Instagram page, the college posted the following:
Are Masks Making a Comeback?
Masking to reduce COVID-19 transmission risk is required at a few colleges and one major movie studio.www.contagionlive.com
A fight broke out at a Vancouver, Canada protest demanding the return of Covid masking," conservative journalist Andy Ngo wrote on X, formerly Twitter, sharing a video of the altercation.
In the video, supporters of the protest can be seen lined up holding signs outside of BC Minister of Health Adrian Dix's office, calling for mask mandates to be reinstated in the province. As the video continues, three men can be seen fighting near the end of the line of protesters. One of them said that a man not seen wearing a mask attacked another, who is wearing a mask. The altercation ends shortly afterward as one of the men involved is seen running away.
Not just schools. I know of two people who have died because they were denied transplants because they were not vaccinated. One person was on his death bed with his wife beside him when they came in and asked if he would donate his organs.I'm not putting on a goddamned mask again period, nor am I getting any more shots. Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice...........
My sister-in-law is a virtual shut-in who has been programmed by CNN 24/7 for years now. She scuttles through the streets wearing two masks spewing venom at the several million people who are not. The media campaign that has been perpetrated against us has been all too effective.
They're letting migrant kids into schools. I have no real problem with that - they're just kids and unlike many, might actually want to go and benefit from it rather than be pushed through with ever lowering standards. Problem is it's a safe bet these children lack the same basic vaccinations we all got. How they can literally let in millions with no concern about this whatsoever and then demand mask mandates from the rest of us is beyond me.
Let's have a live talk on a recent Japanese study on the immune responses in high-risk populations after receiving 5 doses of mRNA COVID-19 vaccin2 Starting at 9 AM Eastern Time (6 AM Pacific). Source References: Five doses of the mRNA vaccination potentially suppress ancestral-strain stimulated SARS-CoV2-specific cellular immunity: a cohort study from the Fukushima vaccination community survey, Japan https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...