GD, makes a good point. Two brothers, both of whom are doctors in Alberta have fished with us for a few years now. Their experience doesnt match what the news is saying at all.

The US is reporting about 300K excess deaths in 2020, depending on who's numbers you believe. They lay all the blame on covid, but then you hear things like, death from overdose is up a whopping 30%, and suicides up almost as much. Those would obviously be excess deaths, so what the real numbers are for covid deaths is hard to figure. Its gotten to political.