I’m surprised that it’s only a 25% reduction, I’ve thought it was a a minimum of 33% and probably like 50% or more.
Think about everyone that died via car wreck, gun shot, heart attack, cancer, etc....during this entire pandemic, if someone had a life threatening event, they got tested for Covid and if the test was positive they were record as dying from Covid....
My brother-in-law died early in the “pandemic” and was counted as a “presumptive” Covid death. He never was tested because if you will recall the tests were only available to celebrities and politicians early on. He was on hospice care for inoperable brain cancer which was noted as a comorbidity. It was clear at the time that counting him as a Covid death was a farce as were the vast majority of those counted as Covid deaths.