Where have I said that, which post?
I'll donate £100 to Rotherham hospice if you can quote it here? If you can't, you make the donation.
The ONS said that this figure being repeated (17,000) is highly misleading and has been misunderstood by people who lack the capacity to interpret the data, like you.
Go and look on their god damn website where they literally issued a statement to counter what you're saying:
https://blog.ons.gov.uk/2022/01/26/t...ly-misleading/
The figure the ONS explicitly clarify of deaths directly caused by covid is over 140,000. Here's a quote:
Now that you've had overwhelming evidence to the counter, do you want to admit you were wrong?
What are you not getting at this point?