Reported deaths (as best we could find them - read bottom of the chart for more details):
Median age: 74.5
Minimum age: 17
Maximum age: 102
64% are 65 or older <- much younger than usual
2/7
The 17-year-old was a male from Hillsborough who didn't visit an emergency room and wasn't hospitalized; he tested positive on February 27. I can't find any news reports about the death.
3/7
"this MIT article seems to have noticed... that team reality is, in fact, well grounded in reality and science. this was never some gang of dimwits and conspiracists, it was a group with serious intellect and empiricism."
"we came to our conclusions because we engaged with the data, and many of us are very good at engaging with data, FAR better than the public health “C team” of self serving scrubs playing at being ready for the big leagues"
"their fragile and dogmatic cathedral cannot possibly stand against our bazaar of ideas and refutation. the coddled grow weak, venal, and dishonest. the challenged grow strong and gain wisdom."
"Consider one of study’s most glaring findings: Even when Covid-19 cases were falling nationally between April 24 and June 27, major media discussed rising caseloads 5.3 times as frequently as falling ones." starkrealities.substack.com/p/study-us-med…
"Overly-negative Covid-19 reporting has implications well beyond individual feelings and practices: Those who’ve been led to an exaggerated perception of their personal risk are more prone to support strict government policies to counter the virus."
"However, when neither Florida nor Iowa experienced negative consequences, there was little media reporting of the good news that government restrictions and mandates may not be worthwhile after all."