Thread by @x2IndSpeculator

Insurance companies, esp. life insurance, seem to be the only institutions left that still give a damn about #COVID. Why? Because they can NOT afford not to. Everyone else can just pretend the pandemic is over & #SARS2 is a mild cold, but insurers can NOT! They know it's real.

https://twitter.com/Jo2Tony/status/1568110064195760128

Insurers will soon be the last remaining source of #COVID data, now that governments & health care public institutions are disgracefully abandoning their duties.
For the pandemic's ongoing toll, look at the latest Group Life #COVID19 Mortality Report.
soa.org/programs/covid…

Here's the direct link for the August 2022 edition.
soa.org/4a368a/globala…
And the impressive list of companies contributing data for this report. I don't think anyone can accuse these companies for faking #COVID deaths & the pandemic's excess deaths in general.

They understand the difficulties:
"The Committee recognizes that there are limitations in the ability to code deaths as #COVID19 related, within both the general population & Group Life exposures. Also, the survey seeks to analyze whether the pandemic has had indirect impacts...

on population mortality, beyond deaths associated directly with the virus. Thus, tracking just Group Life deaths coded with a cause of #COVID19 may not ACCURATELY MEASURE the TOTAL IMPACT of the pandemic. The Committee asked carriers to provide segmentation data WHEN FEASIBLE."

"Exposures & deaths during the 3-year period of 2017-19 were used to set BASELINE mortality expectations. The dataset encompasses all Group Life claims to participating carriers as of March 31, 2022."
"The fully complete 1Q 2022 EXCESS MORTALITY is expected to remain ABOVE 15%."

Mind you, 15% excess mortality for 1Q 2022 is ABOVE the WHOLE YEAR of 2020 (14.7%). How is that even possible if #Omicron is mild, and the vast majority of people had by then already built up immunity vs. #SARS2 (through vaccination and/or infection)?

"From an incurred mortality viewpoint, all 24 months 04/20>03/22 showed excess mortality versus baseline expectations. 12/20, 08/21 & 09/21 had very high incurred mortality spikes of 40% or more, whereas the other 21 m. ranged 5%-29% excess incurred mortality above baseline."

Also
"Table shows the total death claim incidence level (mortality rate) for each quarter during the pandemic relative to the baseline period metric. As the table illustrates, #COVID19 claims do NOT FULLY EXPLAIN the increase in reported claim incidence over the baseline period."

Imagine this:
"Approximately 13% of ALL reported Group Life claims with death dates in the pandemic period were determined to have a cause of death of #COVID19."
And yet the global majority of people still think #SARSCoV2 is nothing special, and the pandemic is over.

There's plenty more in the report for anyone interested, with data sorted by industries, geographic regions, age, sex, even the size of companies. Mind-boggling stuff, indeed. Ask yourself now, why are they STILL increasing the premiums & complicating life insurance in general.