The problem with excess deaths is that includes deaths that are not directly related to COVID. For example, overdoses have skyrocketed, lives have been lost due to missing scheduled medical appointments, etc
That’s not a “problem”. Dead is dead. If people offed themselves for fear of the virus, that’s still a death that happened because the virus existed in society. The virus found another way to kill them. Much like the Black Death in the mid 1300s. About half of deaths were starvation. The farmers got infected and died. Those people would not have starved were the Y. Pestis bacteria not rampant.
BTW, excess deaths last year far exceeded the official Covid death count. A substantial cause of that would be the old guy living alone who develops symptoms, knows that most survive them, doesn’t and dies and gets picked up weeks later from the stink. Never tested. Not a Covid recorded death, though Covid killed him.