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hllooo | 4 years ago

No, he's making a statement saying that his data shows working age people dying at a higher rate. It says nothing about elderly people.

The head of Indianapolis-based insurance company OneAmerica said the death rate is up a stunning 40% from pre-pandemic levels among working-age people.

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Davison said the increase in deaths (that his company sees) represents “huge, huge numbers,” and that’s it’s not elderly people who are dying (to account for this increase), but “primarily working-age people 18 to 64” who are the employees of companies that have group life insurance plans through OneAmerica.

Plus, he actually could say "that elderly people aren't dying at the same rate" in his dataset and be technically correct. The elderly are not part of his dataset, so it's vacuously true.

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netizen-936824|4 years ago

Yes, he is making a comment on his data and as an insurer this data only includes working age people, not the elderly.

So of course he doesn't see elderly deaths because they aren't in his data set

But since his data set is limited, we just can't draw this conclusion

the_optimist|4 years ago

You are simply reading this wrong. If you want to prove that to yourself, call up this guy and talk to him. He will tell you you're stating something totally obvious and making a very silly distinction. You're agreeing with him violently. Come back in a couple of years and re-read this, you'll realize your interpretation is wrong.