This is not likely to be a phenomenon caused by COVID, but something tied to motor vehicle crashes, drug abuse, crime, and perhaps even COVID “vaccine” side effects.
If I were in the fortunate position of drawing a paycheck to stay at home and not required to actually produce any work, I'd be working on some of the hundreds of projects that I haven't had time for over the last few decades.
Many others, it looks like, may fill their free time with activities that are not in their best personal interests.
The S&P 500 has almost doubled since the pandemic lows, so even if life insurance claims are much higher, their investment portfolios are much higher, too. They should be okay.
If they aren't, they need to fire their accountants and actuaries, not ask taxpayers for bailouts.
Not MVAs, not during the lockdowns.
But suicides, ODs, undiagnosed or underlying health conditions that went untreated, suicides, homicides...all those during the lockdowns.
MVAs and suicides, ODs, even more homicides, more deaths due to healthcare delays, and the vaxxes since the lockdowns were lifted.
Also, and this is really interesting, hundreds of thousands of lives might have been saved during the lockdowns, inadvertently, because patients weren’t there to be killed by medical mistakes.
I daresay Big Med is making up for that now.
“Perhaps even”?!?