“Don’t Buy the Media Attempt to Cover for Their Own Overreaction”

“Now aside from the obvious innumeracy in comparing a pandemic today to a pandemic a century ago when America had less than one-third the population, there are more important, more pernicious, reasons why this comparison is so flawed. These comparisons to 1918, and declarations made by the media that Covid-19 is “America’s Worst Pandemic” are really being made not to inform the public, but to provide cover for our government’s terrible response to Covid, and the media’s complicity is driving the societal fear which allows it to continue.”

“In addition to not accounting for population size, which any honest assessment of disease would do, a proper comparison between Covid-19 and 1918 Influenza would also adjust for age. Covid-19 is predominantly a severe disease for the old and infirm. In developed counties the average age of death with Covid is around 80 years old and the typical Covid patient who dies has multiple comorbidities. By contrast 1918 Influenza was a devastating disease for the young and healthy. When you compute excess deaths, by comparing deaths by age group during the pandemic compared to baseline deaths from the year before the pandemic this contrast becomes unmistakable.”

https://hangtownreasoning.substack.com/p/no-covid-19-is-not-americas-deadliest?