hmmm. but its just not that simple is it. co-morbidities. im in hospital with a massive brain tumour and on my last legs. I catch covid in there and die a week later. how did i die? mostly brain tumour. did covid quicken the process? possibly. covid will be on my death certificate and ill be recorded as a covid death but how will my family say I died? this isnt to say the data is wrong, its just a very simple and quite misleading way to talk about mortality rates because it doesn't account for any complexity
likewise with specific cancer deaths, any year theres a bad flu in winter theres a big spike in cancer deaths. id say very few of those families say their relatives died of flu, even tho flu finished them off
Sure, there are going to be some cases like that, but how many, really? Not a statistically significant number, I think. I mean a disease that only kills people who have a few weeks left to live isn't going to make any difference to the overall number of deaths in a year.
In many cases, the only "co-mobidity" is "being old", but the average 70-year-old in this country can expect to be be alive for another 16 years.
(Sorry to hear about your brain tumour, btw, hope you get better soon. x)