You are cherry picking due to your bias ( infected associations) and buying into the circle of death BS being promoted by the Lying Media. Understandably, but panicky.. Look beyond, at possibly agendas. "Follow the money", and politics are always good bets.
For example: " I don't think that they are swabbing dead people or the numbers would be even higher"
Exactly backwards. They are not swabbing some dead people, simply assigning them into "Covid death" despite no evidence that is true. Easy peasy, let's move on.... and there is monetary incentive I have heard.
Underlying vulnerabilities (often the actual killer) are seldom listed. If tested for at all, and Covid is present we get:
Pneumonia? Covid death.
Heart failure? Covid death.
Kidney failure? Covid death.
Traffic death? Covid death.
Kicked in the head by a horse (from my Dermatologist) - Covid death. Many other examples.
Up to half of the people who have this "deadly disease" (which it is to some) show no symptoms at all - according to the testing that is being done. Here in Alaska the death rate of those testing positive is below 2%. it is likely even those are exaggerated, and the numbers (given the no symptom thing), are actually well below 1%, almost in line with "normal" flu - the strains of which have varying statistics themselves.
Covid has nearly eliminated deaths from pneumonia and ordinary flu, and reduced significantly from some other causes, if you believe the statistics.
Which doesn't mean social distancing, increased hand washing, etc isn't valuable and necessary. I carry Clorox wipes in the vehicles and wipe down everything I have touched after being in the store , hands, door handles interior and exterior, shift knob, steering wheel, key, light switch, etc.
I'm semi anti-social anyway, so avoiding large crowds and trying to slow down my wife's socializing fetish is a plus. Got to bow out of going to a concert ( prepaid tickets) Monday night in favor of strangling a bunch of salmon on the beach on friend's personal use permit.
The increasing socializing, mixing with large crowds, relaxing of hygienic standards, less use of masks (I don't use, mostly). will of course increase exposure and contraction. This is not necessarily bad, as the population in general (those that survive) will become increasingly immune - the so called "herd immunity".
Just one more OMG threat in line with global warming, climate change, the yellow peril, acid rain, and the list goes on to sell papers and achieve agendas
Selling bridges......