“Imperial College London’s Neil Ferguson has said, as many of two-thirds of 'Covid deaths' would have happened anyway”
Would these deaths have happened in a massive spike? If not, then it isn’t anything like the same and if so, why?
About half of Covid deaths are in nursing homes. The median lifespan after entering a nursing home is 5 months, and the mean is 13 months.
Coronavirus is very infectious, so if it enters a nursing home, it could easily spread and wipe out everyone who was on the brink of dearth, or on a fragile state.
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/05/02/would-mo...
Just as a random comparable, the annual risk of getting cancer if you're 35 years old is around 0.1%, and the annual risk of having a heart attack is around 0.5% (higher for men, lower for women). All of those diseases would have similar average lifetime lost as covid, but the risk is continuous, not a once per lifetime occurance.