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.
My point is, they’re artificially inflated. Politicized science artificially inflated them profoundly over what they should’ve been. Fauci, the Chinese, etc., should be sued into oblivion. And there’s been at least anecdotal evidence of artificial inflation by the means I mentioned. Give people a monetary incentive with no real oversight and they’ll cheat.
I lost a cousin who was best man at my wedding. Several comorbidities. But nobody can prove me wrong that he would be alive today if science hadn’t been hijacked for political purposes, and he’d received ivermectin/hydroxychloroquine.