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This is the sort of data that I use as the foundation for my assessment of just how serious Covid-19 is.
If it was truly a pandemic that was taking the lives of tens of thousands of people surely it would be reflected in the overall mortality figures for 2020.
The fact that there are no excess deaths implies that most of those whe succumbed to Covid were already half dead from something else that would have killed them this year anyway.
Stats from Sweden, a country supposedly ravaged by Covid, show exactly the same trend. There are less deaths this year than in previous years before Covid appeared.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-deaths/
For me it's much simpler. I am still waiting for someone famous, anyone, even the very old to die from it.