Right, but it's important to distinguish excess deaths caused by covid and covid hostpital impacts vs excess deaths caused by lockdown behavioral changes. Lock

Right, but it's important to distinguish excess deaths caused by covid and covid hostpital impacts vs excess deaths caused by lockdown behavioral changes. Lockdowns and mandates are something a region can instrument independently, and we now have lots of data to assess the benefits/impact of different degrees and types of lockdowns and mandates in jurisdictions that were impacted by the same number of new covid cases.