It may have been explained many times that the oft quoted, hastily gathered, data is very fallible and it is better to look at the "numbers" when things have calmed down a bit.
Hence the frothing by the seemingly absent Taxi about UK death figures now holds less water, as it seems having Covid-19 on your medical record was enough to be counted, even if it was the bus that killed you not the virus. There will be many other anomalies along the way as well.
Should we also avoid/mitigate/control a second spike or wave we could end up far better off than our comparative neighbours.