> it’s the only metric comparable between different countries
There are a near infinite array of othere measures besides exceess deaths that are both comparable between countries and not, even approximately, measuring the thing being discussed, which is COVID infections, like GDP per capita PPP.
Not sure what you are trying to say here. Let's try again.
Are you aware of any other metric for covid infection, comparable between different countries?
Please pay attention to the examples I already gave about how numbers from Israel and the UK make, specifically, "cases" and "deaths from covid" non-comparable.
And remember that I do not dispute that "excess death" is far from perfect. My claim is that -- inherently -- every other measure of covid infection suffers from the same problems that "excess death" does, and then some.
There are a near infinite array of othere measures besides exceess deaths that are both comparable between countries and not, even approximately, measuring the thing being discussed, which is COVID infections, like GDP per capita PPP.