which seems to be the only country counting correctly (e.g. untested excess deaths in Covid proximity are included). That's not a correct way to count and is o

which seems to be the only country counting correctly (e.g. untested excess deaths in Covid proximity are included). That's not a correct way to count and is one of the reasons why comparing "COVID deaths" between countries is meaningless. It's not valid because: 1. It assumes COVID is the default cause of death even though it's known to be a very mild disease for virtually everyone (0.2% IFR and estimates keep falling, not 100%). 2. It assumes lockdowns don't kill anyone, but that's known to not be true for all kinds of reasons. The problem with this kind of reasoning is it looks motivated. It's what leads to fiascos like the New York Times publishing a list of 1000 COVID deaths and the 5th person on the list turned out to be a homicide victim. It's how you get reports of a 19 year old dying of COVID and then it turns out he had leukemia. It's how you end up with COVID death counts going down by large amounts in various parts of the world, as we're seeing now, because cases get re-evaluated and discovered to be incorrectly attributed. And all that ignores the problem of severe co-morbidities in the elderly, who often are claimed to have died of COVID even when they had major pre-existing problems and were about to die anyway. These things destroy public confidence in disease statistics. The message that COVID death counts don't mean anything hasn't really got out yet but in time it will.