Might as well clean up the rest of the myths from yesterday's post / article:
Myth 1: We are overreacting to a disease that 99.5 per cent of people will survive
"Myth 1" doesn't really rebut the claim that 99.5% survive COVID - it points out the fact that there's an age gradient to fatality, meaning people age 75+ do have a higher fatality rate. But the population-wide statistic he claims to be rebutting is not a myth after all, nor does he show that it is.
Myth 2: Covid is only as deadly as a bad flu
"Myth 2" - the CFR/IFR conflation leading to confused comparisons between flu and covid death rates is actually what Anthony Fauci did in his congressional testimony back in March. While this error persists across the covid debate, its most egregious example thus far was from a lockdowner. See: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/7ACD87D8FD2237285EB667BB28DCC6E9/S1935789320002980a.pdf/public_health_lessons_learned_from_biases_in_coronavirus_mortality_overestimation.pdf
Myth 3: We're witnessing a "Casedemic" of false positives from doing too many tests
"Myth 3" is more complicated than the author of this piece lets on, mainly because testing rates are (a) non-random and (b) widely variable over time. Sometimes they coincide with the trajectory of the pandemic. Other times they do not. And it differs from country to country, often due to policy reasons that cannot be reliably separated from the non-random testing sample.
Myth 4: We aren't seeing excess deaths
"Myth 4" is indeed an actual myth. Excess deaths are up.
So Sam Bowman is batting 1 for 8.