The truth is that COVID mortality is no much different than flu mortality
We've had this argument quite a lot over the last year.
Don't look at
reason for death, look at number of deaths from
any reason.
Something has been killing huge numbers of people over the last year, way more than normal... and this just happens to coincide with the Covid pandemic. There hasn't been a flu-or-anything-else pandemic.
https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid