Day 1167: Casualties

I have long thought that if the excess mortality rate is out of control, then whatever is causing those deaths must be causing significant morbidity as well, not to mention affecting labor markets. Back in January, the Vigilant Fox reported some numbers from Ed Dowd:

The following table, provided by phinancetechnologies.com, provides a summary of different statistics regarding changes in disability that occurred from February 2021 through November 2022. We’re going to be focusing on the red section.

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The number it gives is an increase in disabilities of (1,460,000 + 1,677,000) 3,137,000 in people between the ages of 16-64.

“In Wall Street,” explained Edward Dowd, “we focus on signals and frequency and rate of change. That was a three-standard deviation year-over-year rate of growth change — shouldn’t have happened.”

He makes much of the new disabilities being concentrated among the employed (allegedly due to vaxx mandates), and, more obviously, causing our national staffing woes.