doesn’t feel like much of a hoax when your father dies in a nursing home without family at his side...
The hoax is how this was politicized.
The politicization lead to the nursing home deaths.
See Florida VS NY
True, and if you are speaking about your father, I am very sorry for your loss.
On the other hand, influenza and the common cold kill close to the same number of elderly and infirm as COVID does, but flu and common cold deaths are not counted the same way.