I don’t doubt some people died from covid.
I doubt MANY did.
I believe a high number died from the vax. And a number with other conditions and covid pushed them over their limit.
I had it in July of ‘21. It lasted two weeks. No fever, no nausea, but lost my appetite and ten pounds (good thing!), temporary loss of smell and energy. The flu, which I have not had in decades (no vax there either), only lasted a few days way back when.
So covid or flu? Flu is concentrated misery for two or three days; covid is rather mild, but longer lasting. I just didn’t like it taking that long. I have no dread of either and that’s the third time I’ve had some kind of “bug” in approximately four decades, other than a cold a few times.
I'd have to ask you to define "many".
At the start we had people here saying SARS-COV-2 didn't exist. When that played out it became "nobody dies of the virus".
Talking with people who have had covid, most said it was like a bad flu (I have had neither, so I can't say from personal experience).
Well, over 50,000 people die of the flu each year. If is worse than the flu I really can't see how many didn't die of the disease.
Then I have to consider the type of virus.
SARS-CoV was geographically limited. But it had a 10% mortality rate.
I can't, with any amount of integrity, believe that SARS-COV-2 was somehow more benign.
So I have to say that
many died of covid. BUT I also believe the numbers were inflated for political reasons and greed.
Now that the COVID pandemic and panic (and income) is in the past we can look at current cases.
I live in SC. We had a little over 500 hospitalized for COVID last week. So it is a little up, but not much. And given the population it isn't a concern. Our flu rate has decreased a little.
The importance of acknowledging these diseases is that people can treat them. For the most part, neither are serious. But in many cases both should be treated so that they do not cause issues.
And for this each needs to be identified (a corona virus is not an influenza virus). My concern with both is mostly with the elderly. Nursing homes are more a concern because of how viruses spread.