Even just comparing total number of deaths this year to last year is pretty gruesome. From the same website as the original article - https://www.ons.gov.uk/peo

Even just comparing total number of deaths this year to last year is pretty gruesome. From the same website as the original article - https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/weekending25september2020 https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde... - the second last paragraph of section 2 reads: "Looking at the year-to-date (using the most up-to-date data we have available), the number of deaths up to 25 September 2020 was 453,771, which is 53,888 more than the five-year average." That’s just in England and Wales.