For the sake of balance:
Hundreds of thousands of people are dying from cancer and heart disease and diabetes etc, which in fact contribute most to the touted 'excess deaths against 5-year average' figure.
On the other hand ...
If there had been no pandemic, the health service would not have been overwhelmed. It was. It's been run down for decades, and now we are where we are, but – If there had been no pandemic, then those who died would have been in line with the annual average, there would be no spike.
There are people with cancers, diabetes, asthma and other health issues who would still be alive and living useful and productive lives if they hadn't caught Covid. You can't say their conditions killed them, because their conditions are manageable.
There are those who have died because they missed hospital treatments. All the way through, the programme has been to alleviate pressure on hospitals. Even today, in the UK,
ICU wards are mostly unvaccinated people, whereas the hospitalised vaccinated need less medical intervention.
And so here we are today ... ICUs are still overloaded and at stretch,
even with the vaccine, and people continue to die, but the prognosis would be worse
without the vaccine.
I do not understand resistance to the vaccinate. I don't know of side effects? Death-by-vaccine? And does the risk outweigh the risk of Covid?
And for God's sake wear a mask. You don't sneeze in people's faces. This is just a step higher, I cannot see what all the fuss is about.
(OK, that last bit was a bit out-of-balance)