You can't attribute all excess deaths to the virus itself. Covid responses increased poverty around the world and contributed to food shortages which itself caused deaths as well.
This is merely whitewashing the fact that Covid isn't dangerous for most people meanwhile tons of countries had extremely heavy-handed responses.
This is merely whitewashing the fact that Covid isn't dangerous for most people meanwhile tons of countries had extremely heavy-handed responses.
For example: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2020/10/07/c...
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/26/business/global-poverty-covid...
https://www.cepal.org/en/pressreleases/extreme-poverty-regio...
https://reliefweb.int/report/world/first-crisis-then-catastr...