Get a bunch of actuaries together (particularly life insurance actuaries) and sooner or later we will start talking about pandemics. Fortunately, our experiences are almost entirely theoretical. We’ve lived through AIDS (for the life insurance actuary, a very slow-moving pandemic, where the challenge was more about underwriting than claims andContinue Reading
So far I haven’t managed to kill the entire world population… but I’m getting there. Plague Inc is a strategy game in which you “must bring about the end of human history by evolving a deadly, global Plague whilst adapting against everything humanity can do to defend itself.” It’s aContinue Reading
This week’s book review is The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in historyby John M Barry. The book is the story of the “Spanish Flu” – in 1918 and 1919 (depending on where you were in the world) a deadly influenza swept the world, killing between 50Continue Reading