The article says that covid caused about half as many young deaths as all other causes in total (search for the number 16,000 and 11,000). "Open up and flood" m

The article says that covid caused about half as many young deaths as all other causes in total (search for the number 16,000 and 11,000). "Open up and flood" must be mean an increase if it ia change at all, ie. it would make the risk of covid roughly equal to the sum of all other risks. If that's almost nonexistent, as you write, then you imply that all other risks are almost nonexistent, too.