That graph looks pretty dodgy. Flu for the 2018-2019 season being more deadly for young people I can believe, but not that it's more than twice as deadly for 65+. And there's nothing in the tables that point to that either; 41866+51365+59801 for Covid vs. 41363 at the higher end of the estimate for the flu.
Hankison, the officer charged with wanton endangerment, fired 10 times from outside. [...] 'What I saw at the time was a figure in a shooting stance and it looked as if he was holding, he or she was holding, an AR-15 or a long gun, a rifle,' he said. He said he thought that even though he was wearing his protective vest 'there is no way we can challenge this guy with an assault rifle'.
I thought only journalists conflated AR-15 with assault rifle.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
Default settings shows weekly totals for death from all causes, going back to 2017. Just tally up the weeks you're interested in.
In fact, it implies that there isn't a choice.