Re:Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among p...
by austinkhale on Sunday January 02, 2022 @11:47AM
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I think you’re misinterpreting his statement. He isn’t making a claim about elderly death rates. He’s saying the pandemic (both the disease and other effects) is affecting a younger, working cohort as well, based on their available data.
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Re:Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among p...
by netizen-936824 on Sunday January 02, 2022 @11:50AM
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I am saying that comparison is wrong, because he is missing data for the age group that he is comparing against.
Re:Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among p...
by austinkhale on Sunday January 02, 2022 @12:04PM
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I believe where you are interpreting it one way and the rest of us are interpreting it another is perhaps due to missing the quotation marks.
...deaths represents “huge, huge numbers,” and that’s it’s not elderly people who are dying, but “primarily working-age people 18...
Davidson, the CEO in question, directly said "huge, huge numbers" and "primarily working-age people 18..." in his address. However the author of the article, Margaret Menge, added the "that’s it’s not elderly people who are dying" piece.
Essentially Margaret, as explained in another comment, used a literary construction to tie the quotes together. The sentence is being used to convey that contrary to the popular narrative that the pandemic is only killing the elderly, here we have evidence that it's affecting other cohorts as well.
Re:Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among p...
by netizen-936824 on Sunday January 02, 2022 @12:08PM
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If that is true, them this changes the meaning of the quotes. In my opinion this is just as bad because the entire article centers around these claims and she is adding claims that her source did not make.
Horrible reporting