“we have 292,748 COVID-19 deaths. “
We have 292,748 people that died from various causes that were infected with COVID.
We have around 337,000 excess deaths, with a large number of them happening at the beginning of the pandemic before most shutdowns/lockdowns had even begun. And we only hit “excess mortality” when you take what normally happens and get way, way beyond that. It’s accounted for week-by-week comparing stats over the course of multiple years, looking at every cause of death individually. And every cause of death that isn’t COVID-19 is at or slightly above normal death counts, so you also can’t claim that every death is being misclassified. I mean you can, but it would be demonstrably wrong and require everyone to believe that every doctor and family member for every victim was willing to risk prison time for fraud for zero personal gain. So...
You can try to dance around the numbers, but they are what they are. Doctors posting on this very forum are losing patients. Thankfully, most are living. But yes, there are - in fact - people dying.