Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

Wait, you mean the people who don't go to the doctor didn't get diagnosed with Covid before they died, forcing researchers to use excess deaths as the metric of interest? It is almost as if...that was your entire point. But they still died, which seems quite inconvenient for your point, since your whole explanation for why people died was panic (not really an issue for groups with limited knowledge) and medical care (not really an issue for groups...that don't get much in the way of medical care).