The Lemon Fool

gryffron wrote:Is covid a trend or a spike?

Longevity is about people who don't die early in the future. If covid is a spike it has no future effect. That assuming you are looking at longevity of people alive today, rather than going back sixty or seventy years and looking at how those born then will have lived.

Alaric wrote:

gryffron wrote:Is covid a trend or a spike?

Longevity is about people who don't die early in the future. If covid is a spike it has no future effect. That assuming you are looking at longevity of people alive today, rather than going back sixty or seventy years and looking at how those born then will have lived.

The existence of Long COVID suggests that COVID could have long term effects which may impact on longevity for those who were infected ( and although the numbers are down because of vaccination people are still being infected and some are still being hospitalised ). Hence I think the jury is still out on the long term effects on longevity of COVID.

The worsening economic situation of the country may also have an adverse effect on future longevity even if COVID has little to no effect.

French spoof news site view of retirement age/UK politics

https://www.legorafi.fr/2022/09/09/en-h ... -a-96-ans/

TUK020 wrote:French spoof news site view of retirement age/UK politics

https://www.legorafi.fr/2022/09/09/en-h ... -a-96-ans/

Très drôle.

When the age moves to 57 in 2028, does it happen on the stroke of midnight on New Years Day, or is it the start of the next tax year in the April?

Hypster wrote:When the age moves to 57 in 2028, does it happen on the stroke of midnight on New Years Day, or is it the start of the next tax year in the April?

April.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/increasing-normal-minimum-pension-age/increasing-normal-minimum-pension-age

Who is likely to be affected

Individual members of registered pension schemes who do not have a protected pension age but take scheme benefits before age 57 after 5 April 2028 or those who would like to have taken a benefit but will not be able to. However, members of the firefighters, police and armed forces public service schemes will not be affected by this increase.

Kantwebefriends wrote:"reflecting trends in longevity": whether the trend in longevity will be upwards in 2028 is an interesting question.

I assume that at the moment the trend is decidedly downwards.

The population is also increasingly old and fat.

Best wishes


Mark.