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Originally Posted by Bill14564

"We" aren't "absolutely certain" but I believe the CDC numbers that show more than 500,000 excess deaths in 2020. Lacking any other reasonable explanation, these excess deaths must be due to Covid. While the number of flu deaths in 2018 was in the range 46,000 to 95,000, there were ten times as many Covid-related deaths in 2020.

All deaths matter and it would be nice to reduce the number of any deaths but a new condition that causes one half million deaths in a single year (and additional deaths into the next) is worth special attention.

I understand your perspective but I won't rehash all the other variables in reporting such as how deaths were coded, why there were few flu or pneumonia deaths recorded, etc. People died, that is true. Some even from Covid. But we may never know exactly how many.