If you like anecdotal evidence, our paper just had an article from a doc located in the next county. He IS seeing excess deaths related to covid19. When people with comorbidities that were well managed before covid19 die, they die from covid19.
But he states he has had healthy folks no comorbidities at all die quickly from it, and folks in their 90's with comorbidities wind up in the hospital icu and then have a speedy recovery.
As to the numbers from those others forms of death being down? Some say they are, other researchers are not finding that, but both sides are finding an inordinate amount of "died at home of natural causes." Meaning we know for sure they were not shot, beat to death, electrocuted, etc but no tests were run to see if they just had a normal heart attack or had covid19.
What I can read the same thing happened in 1918. We are not likely to ever know the real numbers either way, but it is tragic that rather than actually studying the science so many become science denying foam at the mouth types around here.
One guy in our area thinks it is all a hoax from Satan to, I kid you not, "Force men to cover up the manly beard thus spiritually and emotionally castrating them."
Really???? All this is happening in the world and your only concern is people cannot see your gorgeous beard? But it makes sense sort of--in his religious system there is no such thing as disease, only experiencing of symptoms among those that lack faith. He thinks viruses can't be seen even with electron microscopes, that someone has painted littly squiggly dots on the eyepieces to hoax folks, and that if all this science stuff is accepted you cannot believe in God.
Oh please. Some of the mostly Godly, most Christian people I have known were scientists who also accepted standard science. I think that guy is nut job!