RE: Unless we can first agree on how many people (incl. illegal aliens) are in this country, it seems pretty pointless to me to debate about (apparent) mere hundreds of thousands of excess deaths.
Counting deaths in the USA is not like counting the number of illegals. The former can be determined with relatively better precision than the latter.
Deaths year by year are reported via hospitals, funeral parlors, police, law enforcement etc.t
Illegals? It is difficult to track numbers when you don’t know how many have crossed the border or even gone back without them informing ICE. We also have sanctuary cities everywhere that refuse to cooperate with the immigration department.
The nature and difficulty of tracking is not the same. I believe the CDC numbers are much more accurate than immigration. The reason why the CDC can report death numbers without rounding is because they rely on REPORTED DATA.
But the Government doesn't admit that its "official figures" on illegals are less accurate than its "official figures" on deaths. Rather, it flatly states "11 million" - not "11 million, give or take 10 million" or "11 million, but perhaps as many as 30 million" - a figure that it has not deigned to revise or update in 18 years.
Secondly, even if we were to stipulate that mortality has increased - how are we to know if that increased mortality can be attributed chiefly to COVID? Perhaps it was in fact due primarily to LOCKDOWN measures.
Regards,