"If you discount the people who die, the death rate isn't too bad." OK, got it.
The numbers are incomplete. And the long term health effects and residual deaths are unknown. Both the number of infected people is almost certainly undercounted, but the number of "counted" deaths has also been low-balled--intentionally in some cases. But people will steadfastly stand behind highly questionable numbers that tell the story they want to be true.
I just took: number of reported COVID deaths divided by number of COVID positives here, and that gave .049 rounded to three decimals. And since both those numbers will continue to change, I put little trust that will be the final number.
But it is what the running numbers are here. One bad nursing home, but in general, no. Some very messed up situations where politics screwed over a whole set of counties and things got really bad--not just for the old and infirm.
It will be interesting how they official stats treat a person who contracts COVID-19, survives but with pulmonary problems, and dies 6 mos later from a lung issue they are very unlikely to have had save for the long term COVID pulmonary problem. Is that a "COVID death"? Stuff like that will drive the final percentage up or down.
By the way: you are more concerned about rabies? How many people near you die from rabies in a year?