I just wanted to see the total number of people who died last year compared to this year. I can see a live update for current year's total death number with this link: https://www.worldometers.info/ but I can't find anything on previous year's total number.
Why is finding such a simple number so impossible? What are they hiding? If COVID actually killed a lot of people I should be able to see a massive spike in total number of deaths compared to previous years. So where are the numbers?
You would see death wagons running down the streets and widows hanging white handkerchiefs on their door-knobs and a knell accompanied by shouts of 'Bring out your dead'.
Because they are trying to hide it from you.
On a serious note, most (all?) of those shitty tracking sites were built by 14-year-old script-kiddie hacker types who scour news articles from various countries with bots and try to compile numbers. They are total bullshit.
Go to a legitimate site like Canada Statistics or the CDC and you will see all the numbers you need. They generally run a few months behind. If you want accurate global numbers, it will take years to compile the data in any meaningful way.
Best I could come up with from CDC: https://omegacanada.win/p/11QlYR1wsG/2018-total-number-of-deaths-vs-2/