Assigning blame for various components of the overall mortality is important for those who can change the policy, but for lil' old me it's very great to see at least one indisputable number (excess mortality - hard to fake the fact of death) that can be trusted to represent the magnitude of what we're dealing with in 2020, and which, yes, includes all deaths caused by (or avoided by) various policies. Everything else quickly becomes a jumbled opinionated mess which depends on how deaths are attributed and quickly loses any objectivity and meaning.