“In terms of Excess Deaths about 24% more 65+ people died over this period of time than in 2019, adjusted for population growth of that segment.
That’s real. That’s the number. 24% more oldsters died than would have in a non virus world.”
Source?
Pretty sure you are absolutely wrong on this. It’s close to zero.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
Start out here. Scroll down to the button Weekly Deaths By Age. Click UPDATE DASHBOARD. Then scroll a bit more and look at the older age segments of curves. They never go below the multi year norm smudge / gray line. They are always excess. The lines are different color for different years, and this year remember to look back 6 weeks or so because deaths take time to trickle into the tabulator.
For the exact numbers, in that same section where the Update was, over on the right, you can download the raw data for 65-74, 75-84, 84+ and it’s additive, of course.
Don’t include this year until the end of the year. So 2020 and 2021.