With cases “calculated” as well as “assumed,” as well as “estimated,” as you cite the prose, how is this rigorous in any scientific way?
Date collection alone is not done via guesswork, or is it?
From 2014 to 2019, the annual death toll in the USA went up an average of 35,000 per year.
2020 went up almost 600,000 higher than 2019.
Unless you think ALL the numbers are fake, someone needs to look for an explanation.
If all the numbers are fake, well, there is no point in discussing the issue.