You are overstating things. In some places there are a lot more deaths than usual but in other places there aren't. Here in Oregon we typically have 100 deaths per day which is normal for our population of 4 million. With covid our daily death number has increased 2% to 102 per day. Not really a major change. NY city did get hit heavy and some other places around the world such as Spain and Italy got hid very hard. Australia has had very few deaths from covid, NZ even fewer. It isn't a one dimensional thing and at the moment nobody really seems to understand what is going on. Density is obviously important so it could be that a person needs to get a heavy dose of the virus to get really sick. Maybe you only get a heavy dose of the virus if you're surrounded by infected people.