The live-alone old codger scenario is very powerful. It leads to grows undercounting of Covid deaths.
India is safely ignored. Focus on things like this from the data and only that particular data leads to errors that could be avoided with some extra awareness — specifically, India has an absurdly low life expectancy. They have a magnificent space program doing interplanetary exploration and a huge proportion of their population has no toilets.
So . . . India LE is actually about 70 yrs old. Men sub 70 as I recall. And for purposes of Covid this says exactly what we would think — of course Covid deaths are not properly proportional to the total population. The prime Covid targets died long before they could be hit.
China is a different matter. I originally thought their bionerds had discovered a subtle difference of Asian lung cells vs others and this explained low death rates in 2020 of ALL OF ASIA, not merely China. But . . . then the variants arrived and smacked Asia, more than China.
I shot my own theory down by discovering US citizens and UK citizens of Asian descent were dying at the same rates as other ethnicities. So . . . killed my own theory.
You have not convinced me, and obviously I have not convinced you.
With no common science on which to agree, what seems to remain as the distance between us is political.