It's pretty hard for to decide how to interpret that, because it sounds like the guy is arguing that the statistics about Covid deaths are really bad and their way of registering a Covid death is completely stupid and therefore it is silly to think there is as bad a situation around the pandemic as you might otherwise suppose - on the other hand the guy who is telling me this is the "Director of Illinois Department of Public Health " and as such most likely responsible for the completely stupid way of registering the Covid deaths.