Giving definitive figures is difficult. Total deaths will include some who would have died anyway from pre existing conditions. Totally correct. It will also include some who had pre existing conditions who had those conditions under total control thanks to medicine that enabled them to cycle thousands of miles a year and referee football matches who would not have died for years had it not been for Covid. It will also include some who only had Covid.

There are, to the best of my knowledge, no figures available of how many fall into each of the categories. There, like as not, never will be.

I would like to suggest we all stop being right fighters in this and accept that the UK has a high rate, whichever "explanation" you choose to use and that the total could have been lower if different decisions had been made and/or those decisions had been made earlier/later.

The reverse is also true.

We can't bring any of the dead back. All we can do is focus on making tomorrow and every day after that, that little bit better.