None of that matters. Only the death count matters.
Presuming Covid is flu requires you to see Excess Deaths were 0. They were not. All over the world they were not. EDs were huge last year.
As important, EDs in early Spring, before there were any special restrictions that might anger people or that might scare them from regular doctor visits, were huge. They tracked the official Covid count in terms of trend. EDs came from the virus. Were it flu, EDs would have been zero, because flu existed in the earlier years.
There were more EDs than Covid deaths last year, but of course the likelihood of elderly choosing to tough out a Covid infection at home, and dying there, would cause them to be counted as a death, but with no Covid diagnosis, not as a Covid death. This is all stuff thoroughly covered.
Details about death counts must do two things. They must align with EDs, and every bit as important, they must align with what has happened all over the world. I can assure you the Russian Parliament doesn’t give a damn about vote by mail in the US, but go have a look at their death count. You’ll find the same in Brazil. They don’t give a damn about US politics, either.
Their people are dying. Nothing else matters to them.
It’d be nice to know what ED stands for.
All one has to look at is Florida. Virtually no restrictions related to COVID. Cases plummeting. States where they’re pushing the shots and are heavily vaccinated, cases skyrocketing.
Get the shot or the booster for the Omicron variant? Don’t the variants comes from the virus mutating to go around whatever may have been in it’s way? IE...a mRNA shot gets in the way and the virus mutates to avoid it.
Still interesting, though, that yet another pile of ineptitude starts to fall on CornPop and another variant pops up to steal all the headlines. One that is supposedly very mild, but is also the deadliest one on the planet.