You are comparing deaths to people requiring treatment. But the article you have refer to states that over 400,000 people have required hospital treatment for Covid. It also says that 387k people have waited more than a year for treatment.
In my view it would more informative / accurate to compare the number of patients treated rather than the deaths vs waiting list.
For example, 4.7m are waiting for treatment. This is quite an alarming number. The number in November 2019 was 4.42m so not great, but not quite as alarming. The 387k people waiting more than a year have all been affected by the pandemic as the figure was around 1.5k in 2019.
We can work out from this that the NHS carries out about 4.4 million treatments per annum (as the list was 4.42m in 2019 but only 1.5k had waited more than a year). So the recovery is going to need an increase of 5% in the number of treatments carried out.
Just to be clear, this doesn’t require a response. I am just pointing out the discrepancy in your analysis. Also, regarding the last line, bear in mind my comments regarding your rhetoric.