I'm glad to see you grappling with the idea of collateral deaths using numbers. It has seemed likely to me that the stress caused by the public health response to Covid would have brutalized people's health to the point of killing them. Stress is a killer (as our public health authorities very well know....).
I looked at the CDC site you linked to, and could only find COVID-19-related mortality. They certainly make a great deal of hay with that. Overall mortality info I could find was for 2020. Perhaps there is a better link?
I'm glad to see you grappling with the idea of collateral deaths using numbers. It has seemed likely to me that the stress caused by the public health response to Covid would have brutalized people's health to the point of killing them. Stress is a killer (as our public health authorities very well know....).
I looked at the CDC site you linked to, and could only find COVID-19-related mortality. They certainly make a great deal of hay with that. Overall mortality info I could find was for 2020. Perhaps there is a better link?