I understand what you’re saying, but we’ll never know how many lives could’ve been saved except for the politicization of science. And we’ve all heard how inflated COVID death stats are, where people were beheaded in an accident but their corpse tested positive so their death was a COVID death. Hospitals were paid for reporting COVID deaths, so follow the money. So the true numbers are probably an order of magnitude smaller.
Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine could be (and probably are) far more effective treatments. But they’re cheap and not making someone rich.
I seriously doubt the numbers are off by an order of magnitude.
In China, people were dropping dead on the street. That doesn’t happen here because we drive everywhere. Your example of people decapitated in a car accident in which they happen to have had covid, may well reflect a car accident caused by covid.
I lost my favorite uncle and aunt to covid. I almost lost another uncle. He fell when he was sick with covid and had internal bleeding as a result. He has recovered somewhat but is not doing well. If he had died, I would have blamed covid, not the fall.
I may be losing an aunt to the vaccine. She fell sometime after getting vaccinated and may have had a stroke after falling. Or maybe she had a stroke which caused the fall. Not sure how soon after the second shot.
But she had fallen a couple of times before getting vaccinated. So it’s really hard to tell whether the vaccine had anything to do with it. She’s in her 80’s, at that age, anything and everything you do or don’t do is a risk.