More drivel. For starters, you know nothing about how death certificates work. If the doctor signing the certificate can't commit as to a cause of death, the death has to be referred to a coroner, with all that involves (including an autopsy). When granny dies at age 93 after being very frail for years, surprisingly few relatives are mad keen on having her sliced up by a pathologist. So when the death is not unexpected and the circumstances are routine, doctors nominate a cause of death that fits those circumstances. If granny had some chronic respiratory issues and a recent cough or fever, and other people in the nursing home have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the doctor is likely to nominate COVID as the cause of death.
In individual cases, this might be incorrect. Over a large number, it tends to be fairly accurate (partly because some of those who die of COVID had no indicators of that, so get certified as due to stroke or some other cause, and partly because doctors are surprisingly good at the job, what with having trained for it for most of their lives and being kinda smart). But as others have pointed out in this thread, the clearest picture of the effect of the pandemic on mortality rates is given by the number of deaths in excess of what would be expected in a normal year. Those statistics generally show that we are UNDER-diagnosing COVID, not over-diagnosing it.
You are welcome to make a decision on your own personal health, so long as it doesn't affect mine and so long as you don't expect me to pay for your care. Breaking lockdown affects far more people than you alone. So stay inside and stop bitching, sugar plum.
