yes, I am, because I understand how the system works.
Death certificates aren't a scantron where you can only fill in one spot. It's an essay question.
So, someone dies, they had cancer, it gets ruled it as a cancer death. But they still order a covid test. Later, the test comes back positive. So, then the CDC, which is the final arbiter of death certificats in the US, updates the covid death count by 1.
That can also happen the other way. Let's say they die. And the local people mark it as a covid death. Test comes back negative (or shows it was mistakenly classified) so, the count gets reduced by 1.
We can't know the deaths in real time. There's a delay. AND we'll never really know how many people this killed.
Also, according to the CDC, that if you remove the tracked covid deaths, the US is still 80,000 deaths higher than average. ARe they all covid deaths? No. Are some, yes? Are some due to someone not seeking treatment due to a fear of contracting covid? yeah, certainly. Are some due to there not being staff available to care for them due to covid? Yeah.