AIBU to think the Covid death toll statistics must be a bit skewed?

[AngeloMysterioso]

Been reading the news update about the covid death toll reaching 100k.

What it says on BBC news is “More than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.” (my emphasis).

Does this mean that if someone tests positive for covid but is asymptomatic or recovers quickly, but then gets poisoned or hit by a bus or dies of some other entirely unrelated cause within 28 days, it’s still counted in the covid death stats? Surely that means the statistics are unreliable?

Do you really think that locking people into their homes for weeks on end has helped obesity or alcoholism?
I wasn't making any comment or judgement on the rights or wrongs of lockdown, I was trying to explain that having a comorbidity doesn't in any way mean the person was at high risk of dying of covid or even at any risk of being ill. Your posts suggest you believe that most of the people under 60 who have died had some serious illness already - some will, but many won't, they will have had something relatively minor which was in no way life threatening or life limiting, such as allergic rhinitis. It is not just CEV people who have died.

@LNSL

Why are the 2019 deaths v similar numbers to 2020 deaths? I got my figures from the ONS tonight while watching Boris...I don't understand?

I hadn't clocked that - thanks. The data isnt finalised though. From an ons foi:

"until 13 months after the year end though In 2019, there were 530,841 deaths registered in England and Wales.

Using the Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional, as at week 46 (13th November 2020) 529,928 registered deaths in England and Wales."

People haven’t been locked in their homes for months on end have they though ? Clear melodrama. The initial lockdown was no way as strict as in mainland Europe; after that with some restrictions life was pretty much as normal for millions until the shit hit the fan and cases stated rising.
People have always been able to exercise and surely they should take responsibility for their own health, including excess alcohol intake, as the right wing press is always telling us ?