But their original argument, that anyone with COVID gets marked as a COVID death and therefore you can't trust that statistics, feels pretty weak - there's no w

But their original argument, that anyone with COVID gets marked as a COVID death and therefore you can't trust that statistics, feels pretty weak - there's no way that we're having a sudden surge in all those causes of death to lead to the excess mortality we're seeing. It's a big leap to assume there have been enough COVID adjacent bus accidents that we can use to in any way explain away COVID's effect on mortality.