Well I dont even know of a friend of a friend of a friend who's died. Not even through acquaintances so who are these 80k dead.

My cousin, who regrettably is a Chelski fan, has 2 mates in London that died from this.
Over here in the America's, my Wifes cousin's husband died of it, also 2 friends lost someone in their immediate family.

That’s true but how likely is it that England has had x10 the number of deaths? The difference is often in the way they are counting them. In England anyone diagnosed who subsequently dies is counted as a Covid death even if they’ve recovered and then had an accident. In Scotland, for example, only people who die with 28 days of being diagnosed are included.

A skeptical friend of mine under the Freedom of Information Act, applied for death statistics compared to previous years, deaths since Covid vs deaths before Covid. After much prevarication the Central Statistics Office was compelled to compile the figures and send them out.
The deaths, in total are less this year, with Covid, than they were without Covid, only in one month, April, were the deaths slightly higher.
Backs up your argument Rudi, and Stirling's, that the lockdown and killing our economy weren't worth it. The rush to do so was, and is, inexplicable and has now become political, rather than scientific.

Red and Blue Army!

Many ways people die can’t happen easily during lockdown or social distancing

And the question I would ask said care home bosses would be how you didnt have plans with all the dough you charge. Years to get ready but no, it's all the governments fault we gone done f***ed up.
Like I said ,scapegoats are easy in a time of crisis. Dead patients relatives should be asking these questions or families of the dead should have taken them home and shielded them, from early doors as they would have seen it happening.
Maybe a bit inconvenient I guess!