Why hasn't the media rubbed our noses in COVID deaths? It might be the thing that saves us

[FigNorton]

Really now? Here’s you analyzing the data from last flu season:

@SayTwo

From a total-death standpoint, weeks 1 through 7 look not terribly bad, though still 738 per weeks on average higher than the average of the prior six years. The five weeks after that get pretty bad, though – and interestingly, the twelve weeks before look pretty terrible. You appear to have a relatively mild bit of excess – but still excess, no doubt at that, over the average, even if actually lower in number than three of those years – for the first seven weeks of 2020, with some pretty serious looking damage surrounding it.