Acturial and Statistical Problems Around the Covid Phenomenon (by Nick Hudson)

From the Convention of the Actuarial Society of South Africa 2023. Nick Hudson is Chairman of PANDA. PANDA was established in April 2020 by a group of multidisciplinary professionals, who perceived the global reaction to Covid - from lockdowns to mandates - as overwrought and damaging to the point of causing a great tear in the fabric of society. PANDA is a politically and economically independent organisation that has sought to develop broad rational explanations and test them against international data, while informing the public and media.