That's absurd. There is no "vs prior years", they conveniently started those releases in March 2020, otherwise it would obvious that those "covid deaths" are in the same proportions as other influenza deaths of previous years. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/death-rate They were forced to add a note saying that Santa claus is real to maintain control of the normies: "NOTE: All 2020 and later data are UN projections and DO NOT include any impacts of the COVID-19 virus." Why would that be? Wouldn't you ask? Kinda like that JHU paper that was saying there are no abnormal amount of deaths, was promptly retracted to avoid enraging the believers. Even snopes had to admit it was "mostly true" which means, to everyone else, that it is absolutely true: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/johns-hopkins-covid-deaths/ How long have you been off reddit? I'm genuinely surprised to find someone outside of reddit who still believes in covid. Do you think Hitler was the bad guy as well? edit: Also, as seen on Fig 3 of your link, that amount of "excess deaths" is totally negligible ... ~7k excess deaths in the worst weeks.. come on. If true, could be due to simple bad luck or just a little more zealous reporting.