There’s no reason to doubt their reporting. There is a question as to whether they are disproportionately targeted because we don’t know:
- How many of the population (spoke to media about COVID) are male vs female, and
- How many of the threatened subset are male vs. female
Without knowing both of those, we can’t tell if women are disproportionately threatened, even if we strongly suspect that they are (as we: $HERSELF and I, suspect).
