One story is not. The reporting of the media as a whole is. It's always FEAR FEAR FEAR, without mentioning how likely these cases actually are. Because of this,

One story is not. The reporting of the media as a whole is. It's always FEAR FEAR FEAR, without mentioning how likely these cases actually are. Because of this, there are young, healthy people who think they have a significant chance of dying of Covid, which is just objectively wrong. But it's understandable. If you dare trying to look rationally at the matter, you get accused of "hand wav[ing] away COVID". As if the only two options were "worse than the plague" and "harmless like the common cold".