The Covid shutdowns:
* Delayed medical treatments, except for saving lives, for 6-12 months, with fear leading some people to delay even longer;
* Delayed diagnostic procedures for even longer, especially when patients were fearful, courtesy of MSM fear-mongering;
* Decreased people's exercise (membership gyms were closed for months) and outdoor activities (e.g. California counties stupidly kept activities such as running events until June or July 2021);
* Facilitated people's choices to increase their alcohol consumption - frequency and quantity.
There are plenty of reasons for increased non-Covid deaths. Early diagnoses of cancer, heart disease and many other serious diseases improves chances for effective treatment and survival. This was news 5 or 7 or ?? decades ago.
Dr. Pierre Kory may, 2 1/2 years later, have a more accurate perspective, but in late 2020 while speaking before Congress he touted ivermectin as miraculous. Ivermectin may or may not be effective against the SARS-CoV-2 virus (that few if any tests were done was a significant failure; some cities bulldozed skateboarding parks to keep skateboarders out) - Ivermectin is an anti-parasitic, not an anti-viral drug - but miraculous? That wild claim makes Kory very much less than credible.