I question how the media is counting these deaths from corona virus. The infection fatality rate keeps going DOWN not up, in peer-reviewed journals. I suspect its going to end up like swine flu. The amount of people that actually die from this will be 10x lower than the initial media outlook, once you calculate the numbers honestly.
Moreover I haven’t seen anything to suggest IFR isn’t in the .5% to 1% range, compared to <.1% for the average flu. Do you think the 1.3% fatality rate from the Diamond Princess was just bad luck for them?
You’re so heated about your media preoccupation that you’re calling facts media sensationalism while trying to present as making a rational case.
As an exaggerated example, if I went to people who are all on stage4 cancer, and give them the corona virus, and 20% of them die, cnn will post something like "the corona virus kills 20% of people based on that sample!"
"Swine flu's" eventual death count ended up being 10x lower than what "the news" was initially predicting.
(I don’t recall reading it was a cruise for stage 4 cancer patients. Darn media)
So yes, it's media sensationalism.
BTW if the at risk population is 10% and the IFR for that population is 10% and 0% for everyone else, and infections are spread evenly, that works out to 1% IFR. You have some things you’re very frustrated by, I can tell, but your attempt to substantiate your emotions with data criticism is not successful.