I know many deaths were wrongly attributed to COVID everywhere, the whole debacle about deaths 'with COVID' or 'from COVID', among others. Question is your point only reinforces my argument, because the data we have shows the US rates were roughly the same up to one of the worst, and the data we don't have we don't know what it says.

So to conclude the complete opposite of what the current data shows, dirty or not, is wrong. To then be upset at it is misguided.