A plot of Case Fatality Rate would go down over time as the number of cases goes up. A somewhat related, slightly confusing example is cumulative deaths on a log plot. A handful of people would look at the line without much focus on the axes or title.
A plot of Covid deaths by age group could make it more likely that young people engage in riskier activities, since it downplays the risk for "most" people---well, except someone else's grandparents who were gonna die soon anyway.
And, in the WTF category: https://images.theconversation.com/files/330304/original/fil...
Yes, sort of. There was a great paper in CHI this year discussing how heterodox communities use visualizations (https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3411764.3445211). The rough conclusion is that visualizations do not just empower people to express the truth but are also used in skilled ways by heterodox communities.
That said, I haven't seen that one attempted. Unless it is to get and show good non uniform the risk involved is.
The main question/story seems to be around just how preventable this was. And on that one, stories are all over the place.
Is there a visualization that tells the story that deaths due to covid weren't a big issue?
The only way(other than just making up numbers) I have seen this done is to look at the last few months and use the reporting lag to mislead people into thinking there were fewer deaths than past years.