The disease has a 0.65% - 1% Infection Fatality Rate, meaning it has a 99% - 99.35% survival rate. Not 99.99%. If only 0.01% of people died from it, we’d see no more than 33,000 total deaths, start to finish. We have over 600,000.
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The over 600K number is inflated due to the polarization of the disease to classify anyone who died *with* Covid as having died *of* Covid. In particularly egregious examples, we have people who died in motor cycle accidents being classified as Covid deaths.
If it were just a matter of shifting the cause of death, then total deaths would be unchanged.
Total deaths were up 523,000 in 2020 over 2019. That’s an over 18% increase year over year. Normal year over year increases are 0.3% - 0.7%. Deaths in all the big cause groups (e.g. heart disease, cancer, etc.) were normal or just slightly above normal.