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Cancer, heart disease, stroke deaths are an order of magnitude higher.You're being cute here, though. In areas hard-hit by COVID, it was the leading cause of death, full-stop. E.g. here, where COVID deaths absolutely dominated deaths in NYC between March 11 - May 2. It's on track to the 3rd highest cause of death in the U.S. even though most areas haven't been hit anywhere near as hard as NYC. How you can be so casually dismissive as saying "death happens, so what" is beyond me.
So takeway here is if we don't do anything to try and slow it down, it's unbelievably fucking bad. As opposed to just really bad if we do try to slow it down.