(1) You misunderstand my use of the term excess death. I was using it in the same sense of the comment I was replying to.

I wasn’t talking about “excess deaths” ie the extra deaths not explainable by known covid deaths. Sorry for the confusion. (Although I think more of those deaths are non-covid, likely cardiac disease etc due to fear of hospital)

(2) I talk about sars-1 because covid is caused by sars-2. You understand that right?

We don’t have herd immunity to sars-1 because it burned itself out. Sars-2 will not do that because it is not nearly as lethal and exhibits presymptomatic spread. It is here to stay.

Also by pointing out we don’t have a vaccine for sars-1 that only strengthens my argument that banking on a vaccine for sars-2 is foolish