The simple math that you mentioned above doesn't work because there was an 18% increase in deaths in 2020. Also, flu cases were way down in 2020 because kids were not going to school as well as people were social distancing, washing their hands, and wearing masks.
Also, I would trust Fauci before I trusted you with your science job, and your science company, making science things as impressive as it sounds.
If you have 100 persons, it's a given that 100 of them will die. Please explain an 18 percent increase?
Why aren't average people seeing the supposed increase in their local obituaries? I'm certainly not, and I live in a moderately populous area of Northwestern Illinois, on the macro scale. Scaling it down, the facility where I work has ~2500 employees. Been there for 8 years, and a handful pass away each year from a variety of causes. The biggest outlier was in 2017 when 3 employees took their own lives in one year. 2020 and 2021, so far, are below average for loss of employees due to their passing.
In the runup to the 2020 election Biden was fond of the statement that " it didn't have to be this bad" and a blurb of text in the background showed 260,000 deaths.
In the same time-frame the CDC was claiming ~9,000 deaths attributed to covid alone, nationwide.
Hospitals were being
paid to diagnose deaths as being covid related. Persons who died in industrial accidents had their deaths attributed to Covid. All in the name of money and power.
But
in any real sense, the actual number of increased deaths in either 2020 or 2021 are quite small in any event. Many locales saw a decrease in obituary notices in 2020 due to folks just staying home.