What has been the rate of death for the last year? What about the last 6 months? What do combat deaths have to do with virus deaths? You aren’t comparing deaths per million, but just raw death numbers? Why? It’s meaningless other than on a strictly emotional level.
Don’t tell me this is science.
Excess deaths must be examined age specific.
How does the 65-74 group in 2020 compare to previous years. 75-84? and 85+?
There is zero merit in analysis including people in a comparison that were never vulnerable to begin with, virus or no virus. Looking at total US deaths (and btw, why only US?) includes the young folks who never were vulnerable. Their role was as carriers to their grandparents.
Roughly 25% more 65+ people died of all causes in the US last year than the average death totals of that age group of 2017, 2018, 2019.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
Scroll waaaaay down to the buttons and Update Dashboard selection. Select weekly deaths by age and do the Update. Then scroll a bit more for the excess deaths line age group specific. The last couple of weeks always shows a steep drop because death certs haven’t arrived yet for tabulation
Whatever one’s agenda, it cannot be advanced with anything but pure data.