What really killed the Italians?

In Italy, the dying did not spread like an infections, rather it appears to have been turned on in some governmental regions by their covid 19 policies.

1. Were the unprecedented excess deaths curves in Northern Italy in spring 2020 caused by the spread of a novel deadly virus? by Jonathan Engler of PANDA
https://pandauncut.substack.com/p/were-the-unprecedented-excess-deaths

2. BMJ Waiting for the truth: is reluctance in accepting an early origin hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 delaying our understanding of viral emergence?
https://gh.bmj.com/content/7/3/e008386.long