"For example, if the report says, “Ten thousand people died of Covid last week, including four thousand age 65 and over”, it’s greeted with a, “Oh, so it’s really just six thousand."

Actually the percentage of people 65 and over who have died from Covid-19 has been 75% pretty consistently throughout the whole pandemic, at least according to the CDC. They say every life is precious, but that the illness primarily affects the elderly has to be considered by the morons when they are telling everyone else what to do.