Comparing April-December 2020 to April-December 2021, we see that there were 93,398 fewer deaths involving COVID in that nine month span in 2021 than during that same time span in 2020. This constituted a decrease of some 25% in 2021 compared to 2020. So far, so good, huh?
Yet, when one drills down into the data broken down by age cohort, we see that, for those between the ages of 0 and 64, there were in April-December 2021 35,852 more deaths than in April-December 2020. COVID deaths declined in 2021 only for those age 65 and above (i.e., specifically, 129,240 fewer deaths in that age cohort in April-December 2021, compared to April-December 2020, a decrease of some 42%).
We see the same thing with "all cause" mortality. There were 69,015 fewer "all cause" deaths in April-December 2021 compared to April-December 2020, a decrease of 2.6%. Yet, that reduction in deaths was realized solely in those aged 75 and above (i.e., specifically, 131,839 fewer deaths, a 9% decrease).
For those below the age of 75, it's a different story. In April-December 2021, there were 62,824 more "all cause" deaths for those between the ages of 0 and 74, compared to that same time period in 2020, an increase of 5%.
What you seem to think has been happening during this pandemic, and what has been happening, are two different things. And, no, I'm not "afraid" of COVID. Never got vaxxed and never will. I wore a mask only when in a setting where one was required (and enforcement was in place). Keep my vitamin D levels up, supplement with zinc and, as well, Ivermectin as the situation may warrant.
But as the foregoing data indicate, the "public health" (which is to say, governmental) response to the pandemic, initiated under Trump and continued under Biden, has been an abject failure.
And ask yourself this: what is the principal difference between the state of affairs that existed in April-December 2020 and in April-December 2021 in the U.S. that might possibly explain the mortality data?
Perhaps the most vulnerable elderly were culled in 2020?
One other issue - National Center for Health Statistics calculates USA total deaths by week, not by days.
That means every six years NCHS must add a 53rd week to catch up (52 X 7 = 364). A 53rd week was added to 2020. The death total was 86,823 for that week, which was the third highest weekly total in modern times.
I have to think that the 53rd week has completely skewed comparisons between 2020 and 2021.