Originally Posted by
ScepticalOptomist
4 million or so dead in 16 odd months is a large number until it’s compared to the vast numbers dying every day “without COVID”.
The 4 million or so dead is calculated using less than 425,000 deaths for India. Do you think that the Indian death toll numbers are correct?
Leaving that aside for the time being, accepting that it's 4.2 million deaths over 16 months or so that's an unweighted annual figure of 3.15 million deaths. To see that sort of increase in annual global deaths would normally take about half a decade, five years.