I don't think we can clearly state covid deaths were counted correctly. There are many odd thing with the numbers, eg. no-one died of the flu during covid beca

I don't think we can clearly state covid deaths were counted correctly. There are many odd thing with the numbers, eg. no-one died of the flu during covid because they were all counted as covid, not to mention the emergency measures (I know of at least 2 european countries where this happened) that allowed even just presumption of covid to be counted as covid deaths, without a proper autopsy or the financial incentive that some hospitals / state actors had in having a certain number of covid deaths in order to get compensation. The age at which people died also matters. If covid just sped up the death of old people we lost significantly less years of life as a society than when young soldiers die. Overall if we focused on improving cardiovascular diseases or traffic related deaths instead of scrambling making emergency vaccines for covid, I believe we would have saved more years of life as a whole. Nuclear threats are just threats - if anyone actually fire nukes both sides would die. They're great for making your enemy panic and don't bother you during invasions, though.