[mrsmith]

“The total death rate is not up” well, it was.
Dramatically up as the chart here (of ALL deaths- not just covid) shows.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

[zadox]

“The total death rate is not up” well, it was. Dramatically up as the chart here (of ALL deaths- not just covid) shows. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

I have no confidence in the CDC. I'm hard pressed to come up with a more hubristic, self serving, useless sudo government agency than the CDC. How about this site:

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/death-rate

which shows a slight decrease in over all deaths.