The point is what is not being classified as flu this year (all covid all the time) is what would have been classified as flu in any other past year. It’s just the world decided to hype covid as it’s very own unique thing, so now we see covid everywhere, when in the past it would have been classified as flu along with any other variants of the season.
If that were true (and I’m not saying it is), flu causes about 36,000 deaths a year on average (https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html)
We still had 499,378 more deaths in 2020 than we did in 2019. (2019: 2,854,838 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db395.htm vs 2020: 3,354,216 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm)
And don’t say it’s all suicide because even a 20% increase in suicides would be 9,000. And don’t say drug overdoses, because a 20% increase there would be 14,000. Auto accident deaths were down slightly in 2020. Nobody dropped nukes on Atlanta, so clearly something changed. A normal year-over-year increase is 0.3% - 0.7%. Not 17%.