Edit: Gah, sorry, I just realised I made a basic mathematical error. You’re right. That should be 1%. I’ve corrected the article. The rest of my comment stands though.

No, that’s just it. More than basic maths is required. You can’t simply divide deaths by case numbers and get the mortality rate because the one thing we know for certain is that cases are under-reported.

30–50% of cases are asymptomatic, rapid tests consistently provide false negatives, and many people simply didn’t get tested because they couldn’t afford a test or didn’t have access to one. Not to mention that the fact that deaths are still calculated using died with COVID instead of died of COVID means deaths are over-reported.

That’s why, perhaps counterintuitively, an estimate using a statistical model is more likely to be accurate than using basic maths based on reported numbers.

And no, there is no easy answer.

You think there is because you're not one of the millions of people suffering a mental health crisis of loneliness and isolation that has gone almost entirely unmentioned. You're not one of the children whose education and life trajectory have been put on hold for two years during arguably the most important time of your life. You're not one of the people whose family has lost their home because you couldn't find a way to provide for your family during all the business closures.

As I said, the pandemic has hit us all very differently. If it hasn't affected you in any of the above ways, I'm genuinely happy for you. But to pretend that there are easy answers because you've been fortunate in that way is short-sighted at best.