That is the death rate "to date". You compared it with the death rate for all of 2019.
I completely agree that Covid will probably not result in a really high "excess death rate" when all the data are in, but we have to wait for the date to be in. Then we have to compare like to like, so we should compare the Covid period to a period when we had a bad flu season.
No, I am not committing the heresy of telling people not to take Covid seriously. It kills people - take it seriously.
But google "Great Barrington Declaration" if you would like good sense from professionals at Oxford University about lockdowns.
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