There is such a thing as "excess mortality from Covid-19" and it can be measured, and is significant, see: https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid htt

There is such a thing as "excess mortality from Covid-19" and it can be measured, and is significant, see: https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid So it's NOT like all those half-million people who died from Covid-19 in the US would have died anyway and we would just call their cause of death something else. No. They died because of Covid-19 and many of them because some people publicly downplayed the danger of it and made fun of people wearing masks.