The Australian data he talks about are not so clearly declared but 40% excess deaths due to COVID means that from all the excess death 40% had COVID as a possible factor not as the definitive cause of death.
"hence the other 60% are not COVID related" is the correct interpretation because its the interpretation of the doctors that looked at each individual death.
This is perfectly normal and its obvious that many death will fall into the wrong group for various reasons. For example a car crash death is likely going to be "not COVID related" even thou someone could very much have crashed their car due to COVID.
These edge cases however can go both ways and since these always existed in all the data collected it should not be so relevant to monitor the trend. And the trend is obvious and unexpected. We see more people die than the average and we should see less after years of excess death.
Also your assumption that the excess death (not attributed to COVID) is actuality due to COVID, is perfectly valid and he never says that this isn't a possibility. The key point is NO ONE KNOWS or seems to want to figure it out.
If people actually die from COVID in a way doctors do not attribute it to COVID that would be very very important to know and investigate.
Same with all other pandemic related reasons you mention. They are all possible but again the problem is that we do not know.
The government does investigate these things, and many of these effects are well-known... to epidemiologists.
For example, when there was that Swine Flu pandemic, the ratio of reported flu deaths versus excess deaths for that year was something like 1:5 or even higher. I read a scientific paper to that effect, which was funded by a government study. This is standard stuff.
In Australia, we had government bodies putting out warnings saying that deaths due to suicides caused by the lockdown and similar pandemic-caused health issues might exceed the deaths directly caused by COVID!
This is not some secret coverup, it was on the nightly news being announced by someone working for the government.
Another government body was saying that alcoholism-related deaths were up as well because people were drinking more during the lockdown.
You are completely out of the loop on the data it seems. If you have some free time 1h or 2h and actually look at the data you would know this is not about suicide increases, lockdown effects, delays medical screenings etc. etc..
The excess deaths are higher than the expected effects of all these known factors together and the correlation to onset/end of the events do not line up. You cant explain ongoing excess death globally due to lockdowns when lockdowns where very different by region and have long been lifted a while ago. No one questions that lockdowns had negative effects, horrible effects like suicide but we are talking about a 10% increase suicides and single digit increase in cancer death, durg abuse and similar things that we do have a very good idea about why these increased but it just does not add up to 15% or 20% excess death.
The excess deaths are off by a factor of 2 or more in many places, in other words we have theories and reasonable understanding for halve the excess death death.
"hence the other 60% are not COVID related" is the correct interpretation because its the interpretation of the doctors that looked at each individual death.
This is perfectly normal and its obvious that many death will fall into the wrong group for various reasons. For example a car crash death is likely going to be "not COVID related" even thou someone could very much have crashed their car due to COVID.
These edge cases however can go both ways and since these always existed in all the data collected it should not be so relevant to monitor the trend. And the trend is obvious and unexpected. We see more people die than the average and we should see less after years of excess death.
Also your assumption that the excess death (not attributed to COVID) is actuality due to COVID, is perfectly valid and he never says that this isn't a possibility. The key point is NO ONE KNOWS or seems to want to figure it out.
If people actually die from COVID in a way doctors do not attribute it to COVID that would be very very important to know and investigate.
Same with all other pandemic related reasons you mention. They are all possible but again the problem is that we do not know.