It's fine if you want to make a point about COVID deaths—go ahead and say what you mean to say. I get there are many things to be said. But it's unclear why you're involving my comment with your soapbox. The parent comment to mine was about "not thinking about COVID".

Why not just say what you mean to say in full? There is no need to try to put words into someone else's mouth to speak up for what you believe. You seem to simply be re-framing my comment in order to make yours.

One way to start is along the lines of "This makes me think of an aspect of [the topic] which is [...] and what I think about that is [...]".

(No one brought up or said any of those other deaths were acceptable. Nor did I say that COVID deaths were unacceptable or "tragic".)