You're right on the suicides, I misremembered, my apologies.
I don't know why you're going after a straw-man here. Your own link even shows that COVID isn't anywhere near 100% of the excess deaths, it's ~70% of them. That's my only point. Excess death is not a suitable proxy for COVID deaths, because COVID deaths are only a portion of the excess deaths, sizeable though it may be.
We have excess death, a big portion of those is from COVID, but there are numerous elevated causes of death that also form a substantial portion of those excess deaths. You can't just declare that we have 500k excess deaths, and COVID is around, so COVID killed 500k people.
I don't know why you're going after a straw-man here. Your own link even shows that COVID isn't anywhere near 100% of the excess deaths, it's ~70% of them. That's my only point. Excess death is not a suitable proxy for COVID deaths, because COVID deaths are only a portion of the excess deaths, sizeable though it may be.
We have excess death, a big portion of those is from COVID, but there are numerous elevated causes of death that also form a substantial portion of those excess deaths. You can't just declare that we have 500k excess deaths, and COVID is around, so COVID killed 500k people.