another strawmanSo all cause mortality by year isn't a useful metric when trying to determine whether you had an actual 'epidemic' of a 'deadly disease', compared to other years? Is that seriously what you're saying?
Ellal is talking about the decision making process of NPIs, namely mask wearing
all cause mortality is useless for that
by the way, excess mortality increased significantly during the pandemic -gosh covid killed loads of people.....which knocks your rancid hogwash out of the water